DragonFlyBSD 4.8.1 Released, Updates Intel DRM Against Linux 4.7.10

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DragonFlyBSD 4.8.1 Released, Updates Intel DRM Against Linux 4.7.10

DragonFlyBSD 4.8.1 has been released by Justin Sherrill with various minor updates -- particularly for Intel DRM graphics and other kernel improvements -- over the recent v4.8 milestone...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...4.8.1-Released

[timofonic]

Always lagging... What about designing a common driver API for both BSD and Linux plus dual/licensing drivers or using MPL 2.0 or whatever? This could benefit many open source and alternative operating systems.

[Luke_Wolf]

Always lagging... What about designing a common driver API for both BSD and Linux plus dual/licensing drivers or using MPL 2.0 or whatever? This could benefit many open source and alternative operating systems.

Most drivers are already permissively licensed, using MIT and the like

[timofonic]

Most drivers are already permissively licensed, using MIT and the like

Oh, nice. So why do they lag behind? What's the issue for that relatively slow updating of drivers?

[PhilPotter]

The fact that they are written to internal Linux APIs is one thing. Takes a while to refactor them in many cases. I'm thinking of things like KMS, PRIME etc. Also, I would not say most in-tree drivers are permissively licenced, although a lot are - happy to be proven wrong of course, not an expert by any means.