[talk] FreeBSD drm-next now available on 11-STABLE

[Scott Robbins]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:51:51PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/22/18 4:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> >> That may be it. I just tried after a fresh install without updating.
> > Meh, I see what happened. I've been mentally confusing STABLE and RELEASE.
> > From a series of posts on the forums, it seems it's in STABLE, but not in
> > RELEASE and probably won't be. 
> yea that would make sense.  but don't lose heart - i believe HPS is
> going to attempt to submit patches shortly so that this will work on
> 11.1-RELEASE.  the devs are also sync'ing the bits so that it'll have
> parity with the code in linux-4.11.  its taking a bit longer to get that
> merge completedue to linux changing API interfaces randomly b/w minor
> releases from what i've gathered, so the code currently available has
> parity with the 4.9 kernel.

That would be nice. Thanks. I'll continue to keep an eye on it. 


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