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DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind


DragonFlyBSD has updated its Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver code that it ports over from what's available in the upstream Linux kernel

The latest revision to the DragonFlyBSD kernel graphics driver code enables support for some new hardware platforms but remains woefully behind the latest generation dGPUs/iGPUs and what is found in the upstream Linux kernel. The new sync enables AMDGPU driver support for aging AMD Picasso and Rave 2 platforms as well as Vega 20 discrete graphics. The DRM core driver code pulled into DragonFlyBSD is also now providing basic support for DMA-BUF.

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