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

doener

Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154649

oblio

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?

brynet

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

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

How does GPL code get ported to BSD?