freebsd stable - Feb 2018 - [CFT] [X11] graphics/drm-next-kmod now builds, loads and works on FreeBSD-11-stable

Hi FreeBSD desktop users!

During the past week and over the weekend all parts needed for building, 
loading and using graphics/drm-next-kmod on FreeBSD-11-stable have been 
completed!

A big thanks to all the people contributing to graphics support under 
FreeBSD in both kernel and user-space! You'll find their names in the 
commit logs including myself :-)

Links:
https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-next-kmod
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329527

Issues are reported here:
https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues

--HPS

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:35 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org>
wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD desktop users!
>
> During the past week and over the weekend all parts needed for building,
> loading and using graphics/drm-next-kmod on FreeBSD-11-stable have been
> completed!
>
> A big thanks to all the people contributing to graphics support under
> FreeBSD in both kernel and user-space! You'll find their names in the
> commit logs including myself :-)
>
> Links:
> https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-next-kmod
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329527
>
> Issues are reported here:
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues
>
> --HPS
>
Wow! That is awesome. Thanks to all of the contributors.

Any instructions? Am I right that the mod setting driver should generally
be used. None of the links above really covers implementation.
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:35:24 +0100
Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD desktop users!
> 
> During the past week and over the weekend all parts needed for building, 
> loading and using graphics/drm-next-kmod on FreeBSD-11-stable have been 
> completed!
> 
Thanks for the hard work by all involved!

Tested a few days ago, reported in the forum post here:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/using-drm-next-kmod-on-freebsd-11-stable.64731/#post-378702
TL;DR - it works on a Toshiba Satellite Z30-B-10W (Broadwell-U,  Intel HD
Graphics 5500). One issue - the text console (before starting Xorg) has serious
lag,
you can type a command before anything shows on the screen. Should I open an
issue for this on Github?
HTH
-- 
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>