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Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation exists to support the FreeBSD community and the FreeBSD project. Some of its projects are aimed at improving the experience of FreeBSD on specific hardware. There is an ongoing, and expanding, laptop experience project. To expand that project further, the foundation has provided Framework laptops to a bunch of developers working on the FreeBSD laptop and desktop experience. I’m one of those developers, and here are some initial notes on the process. The notes assume experience with FreeBSD.
For me in particular of interest is that it has the same GPU series, AMD Polaris 12, as my FreeBSD 14-STABLE desktop machine, so I can share experimentation with graphics drivers between them. Linuxes have a signed GRUB shim nowadays, or other bits and pieces so they work with secure boot. Last time I dug into KWin internals in an attempt to figure this out I ended up with “some part of the OpenGL stack is lying” and then gave up.
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