freebsd stable - Feb 2018 - update of graphics/drm-next-kmod to Linux 4.11 level for recent CURRENT and 11-STABLE

Dear all,

Please CC me as I am not subscribed.

On behalf of the FreeBSDDesktop team and thanks to the tireless efforts
of Johannes Lundberg and Hans Petter Selasky (hselasky), I am pleased to
report that the graphics/drm-next-kmod port just received an update to
Linux level 4.11 KMS/DRM for amdgpu, radeon, and i915 for both recent
CURRENT and 11-STABLE.

We have tested this on a range of hardware ourselves:
* Haswell
* Broadwell
* Skylake
* Evergreen
* Kaveri (both radeon and amgpu KMS)
* Carrizo
* Polaris

Needless to say, the possible space of hardware this could run on is
significantly larger. Hence, if you find issues and/or want to propose
patches, please do so at our development github:

https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm

We absolutely do welcome contributions!

Johannes

On 2/25/18 7:48 AM, Johannes M Dieterich wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Please CC me as I am not subscribed.
>
> On behalf of the FreeBSDDesktop team and thanks to the tireless efforts
> of Johannes Lundberg and Hans Petter Selasky (hselasky), I am pleased to
> report that the graphics/drm-next-kmod port just received an update to
> Linux level 4.11 KMS/DRM for amdgpu, radeon, and i915 for both recent
> CURRENT and 11-STABLE.
>
> We have tested this on a range of hardware ourselves:
> * Haswell
> * Broadwell
> * Skylake
> * Evergreen
> * Kaveri (both radeon and amgpu KMS)
> * Carrizo
> * Polaris
>
> Needless to say, the possible space of hardware this could run on is
> significantly larger. Hence, if you find issues and/or want to propose
> patches, please do so at our development github:
>
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm
>
> We absolutely do welcome contributions!
Thanks JMD and everyone who hacked on this the past couple days.? I can
confirm that this works as expected on my 11-STABLE with a Kabylake CPU,
so we can add that hardware to the list above :)


Cheers,
-pete

-- 
Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org
310.309.9298

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:48:44 +0100, Johannes M Dieterich <jmd at
freebsd.org>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Please CC me as I am not subscribed.
>
> On behalf of the FreeBSDDesktop team and thanks to the tireless efforts
> of Johannes Lundberg and Hans Petter Selasky (hselasky), I am pleased to
> report that the graphics/drm-next-kmod port just received an update to
> Linux level 4.11 KMS/DRM for amdgpu, radeon, and i915 for both recent
> CURRENT and 11-STABLE.
>
> We have tested this on a range of hardware ourselves:
> * Haswell
> * Broadwell
> * Skylake
> * Evergreen
> * Kaveri (both radeon and amgpu KMS)
> * Carrizo
> * Polaris
>
> Needless to say, the possible space of hardware this could run on is
> significantly larger. Hence, if you find issues and/or want to propose
> patches, please do so at our development github:
>
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm
>
> We absolutely do welcome contributions!
>
> Johannes

Nice work. It might be nice to edit the linux 4,9 reference from pkg-descr.

Regards,
Ronald.

On 25.02.18 16:48, Johannes M Dieterich wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Please CC me as I am not subscribed.
> 
> On behalf of the FreeBSDDesktop team and thanks to the tireless efforts
> of Johannes Lundberg and Hans Petter Selasky (hselasky), I am pleased to
> report that the graphics/drm-next-kmod port just received an update to
> Linux level 4.11 KMS/DRM for amdgpu, radeon, and i915 for both recent
> CURRENT and 11-STABLE.
> 
> We have tested this on a range of hardware ourselves:
> * Haswell
> * Broadwell
> * Skylake
> * Evergreen
> * Kaveri (both radeon and amgpu KMS)
> * Carrizo
> * Polaris
> 
> Needless to say, the possible space of hardware this could run on is
> significantly larger. Hence, if you find issues and/or want to propose
> patches, please do so at our development github:
> 
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm
> 
> We absolutely do welcome contributions!
> 
> Johannes
Thx for your hard work. The drm-next-kmod port enabled me to finally 
replace my ageing Thinkpad X220 with newer hardware.

The latest update (g20180117_3 -> 4.11.g20180224) to the drm-next-kmod 
port introduced a regression which causes Xorg on my T470s running 
12-current from a few days ago to fail at startup stating that it didn't 
find any screen.