Intel Arc driver situation

[piizog]

So, I built a new budget system to be my streaming PC and the most cost effective solution was to go with a Arc GPU, but from what I understand, the i915kms driver that comes with drm-kmod only supports integrated graphics.

Any news or rumours about compatibility in the near future? I believe the open drivers Intel puts out are decent. Unfortunately I don't know code or I'd try porting myself.

 

[T-Daemon]

See Thread intel-arc-gpu-support.89343

You can try graphics/drm-61-kmod port on 14.0-STABLE.

Port description:

amdgpu, i915, and radeon DRM drivers modules.
Currently corresponding to Linux 6.1 DRM.
This version is for FreeBSD 14-STABLE 1400508
and above.

 

[Argentum]

So, I built a new budget system to be my streaming PC and the most cost effective solution was to go with a Arc GPU, but from what I understand, the i915kms driver that comes with drm-kmod only supports integrated graphics.

Any news or rumours about compatibility in the near future? I believe the open drivers Intel puts out are decent. Unfortunately I don't know code or I'd try porting myself.

I was wondering if there have been any updates since your original post regarding support for Intel Arc GPUs on FreeBSD?

 

[T-Daemon]

According to documentations Intel ARC requires 6.2 Linux to work properly. There is graphics/drm-66-kmod in ports, supported on the 15 and STABLE 14 branches.

FreshPorts -- graphics/drm-66-kmod: DRM drivers modules

amdgpu, i915, and radeon DRM drivers modules. Currently corresponding to Linux 6.6 DRM. This version is for FreeBSD 15 1500023 and above.

www.freshports.org

284891 – graphics/drm-66-kmod version discrepancy

bugs.freebsd.org

graphics/drm-66-kmod is reported to work on stable/14