Intel extreme graphics 2 drivers for older gateway 510

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If KMS support for this hardware is dropped, this potentially could mean that the affected hardware can no longer be used with FreeBSDДЄs a Nvidia user, personally do not care much about Intel or AMD support.

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What now particularly worries me is that from what I read, apparently some xf86-video-something drivers do no longer work in user mode, only in KMS mode. Sadly I have not yet found any information whether possibly (and hopefully) the plan to drop support for legacy GPU hardware might have been abandoned, leading to dropping drm-legacy-kmod. This drm-legacy-kmod module has been removed very recently. Now I heavily regret not having bookmarked these pages when I was sifting through countless pages to collect information for the compatibility matrix table. I have found several similar references to the removal of support for hardware older than Haswell, for example in notes on. Please let me again emphasize that, for the autodetect/autoconfiguration script, I need data as correct and exact as possible. I already have been accused of spreading misinformation.

I really would appreciate to learn why that is deemed necessary. Sadly I have not yet managed to find any text about the reasons. Learning of the plan to drop support for most to all Intel-GPU-based laptops and desktops that are older than circa 7 years was a hefty surprise to me, too. But I recently learned that I need to add functionality that tells the user which FreeBSD version can be used, if hs FreeBSD version does either not yet or no longer support a particular GPU. I initially assumed that this would not be necessary. This might make things even easier, as the CPU generation is easy to determine:Д«tw, the autodetecting/autoconfiguring postinstaller I am working on will tell the user the exact GPU information, including its generation. I am also considering to add another row, which displays the respective CPU generation, as it is important not to confuse CPU and GPU generations.

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I'll update the table in post #1 today or tomorrow to include the introduction year of each GPU. The source links below are not listed above, as they affect all:Д«ig thanks to all people who contributed by confirming particular GPU/OS combinations' working or not working!

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For GPU generations 4-6 to work on 12.2, according to this thread, it seems necessary to first deinstall graphics/drm-kmod, then explicitly install graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod (needs still to be verified whether this is really necessary when doing fresh install).The 'Code' row shows the code string parts from which you can recognize and associate the #defined constants and macros used in the xf86-video-intel sources.The items are ordered only by GPU generation, but not ordered inside-generation.

The chronological order is only roughly exact.

All entries which contain a question mark have no confirmation source in the 'Sources' row yet, and thus might be incorrect.

Gemini Lake (Goldmont Plus, Gemini Lake Refresh)

Intel extreme graphics 2 drivers for older gateway 510