DragonFlyBSD's Intel DRM/KMS Driver Now On Par With Linux 4.3

While the FreeBSD's Intel kernel DRM/KMS driver is still dating back to the Linux 3.x kernel days and the state of other BSD distributions vary when it comes to their DRM/KMS support, DragonFlyBSD continues moving forward with their DRM/KMS driver porting from the Linux kernel. Their i915 DRM driver now is based off the relatively recent Linux 4.3 kernel.

DragonFlyBSD's DRM/KMS porting efforts can largely be attributed to the work of François Tigeot. With his latest work as of today, DragonFlyBSD's latest code is now based off Linux 4.3 for their Intel kernel graphics/display driver. This makes the Intel graphics support on DragonFlyBSD now exhibit better stability, support improvements for many generations of hardware, Skylake is no longer considered experimental, HDMI supports 12-bits per-color component on supported screens, power-saving improvements, and more.

More details on the latest i915 DRM improvements to DragonFlyBSD can be found via this kernel commit.