Re: DRM Project report (week of August 10)

From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:25:10 +0200
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:44:38 +0200
Jan Beich <jbeich_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com> writes:
> 
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  5.4 was finilly reached !
> >  For AMD users it means that Navi12/14, Arctarus and Renoir should work.
> >  For Intel users it means that TigerLake should work too.
> >
> >  No ports update for now as I want to give current users a bit of time
> > to update their base (as the ports needs recent addition to
> > base linuxkpi) but if you have a current >= 364233 you can test
> > directly the master branch of https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/
> >
> >  I plan to commit the port update at the end of the week, and probably
> > at the end of the month we will switch drm-current-kmod to 5.4.
> >
> >  It's now time to do 2 main things :
> >  - Update stable/12 so it have all the needed code to run 5.4
> >  - Remove the remaining GPLv2 code to start thinking of import into
> > base.
> 
> Upstream v5.4 was tagged on 2019-11-24. Did you check linux-5.4.y (LTS)
> doesn't require more LinuxKPI changes? For example, when drm-v5.0 was
> the latest I've played with grafting linux-4.19.y only to discover
> some commits had to be reverted due to missing LinuxKPI bits.

 Not yet, but those bits could be added in the ports for 12.2 if they
are needed anyway.

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu_at_bidouilliste.com>
Received on Tue Aug 18 2020 - 06:25:21 UTC

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