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OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

58 points doener 2 hours ago 9 comments

oblio 1 hour ago | parent

There are parts of me that don't want to say this but will LLMs actually help Linux and smaller OSes by accelerating reverse engineering hardware that doesn't have open/good enough specs? Will we reach a point where hibernate works reliably on Linux? Weird hardware can be used well by FreeBSD?

doublerabbit 1 hour ago | parent

I'm very happy and lucky to have to a modern laptop where everything just works including S3 hibernation in FreeBSD.

MSI Modern 15

asveikau 1 hour ago | parent

This has nothing to do with LLMs. The *BSDs have been porting Linux video drivers for years. This is just the status quo of how video drivers on OpenBSD work.

brynet 1 hour ago | parent

OpenBSD 7.9 was already on the 6.18.y longterm support version for the drm(4) drivers, Jonathan Gray (jsg@) completed the update back in March, sponsored by the OpenBSD Foundation.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177310343311915&w=2

I just wanted to highlight Jonathan's continued efforts backporting updates in my usual "HYPE" post series for the upcoming OpenBSD 8.0 release.

(I'm the author of the mastodon post that was shared.)

alberth 1 hour ago | parent

Note that OpenBSD is on 7.9 now and all releases are possible breaking changes.

They release every six month and increment by 0.1. And after 0.9 they rollover to the next whole number.

So don’t think of version “8.0” as a major release per se, since OpenBSD is a fixed schedule release - not a Major.Minor release.

Gracana 22 minutes ago | parent

How does GPL code get ported to BSD?

brynet 14 minutes ago | parent

Most of the common drm code and kernel gpu drivers are already MIT/X licensed for historical reasons, same goes for the Mesa GL and Xorg components.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/sys/dev/pci/drm

pizzaiolo 12 minutes ago | parent

I wonder if it's downloaded after installation, like nonfree codecs in many Linux distros