Re: Mini-PC for NetBSD

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 04:23:44PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> I answer myself, because apparently DRM is the hurdle to take. In the
> release announcement for NetBSD 9.0 it was stated that this is at the level
> of Linux 4.4. In the announcement of NetBSD 9.1 it is not mentioned, so it
> is assumed that it remained stable. Now a matrix would be good, which shows
> which GPU is fully supported in this way :-) Is there such a matrix for
> NetBSD? Or can somebody navigate me to the source files, which show me the
> current state of it? Or even better, is there a wiki page or something like
> that (as exists for Xen for example)?
> 
> Kind regards
> Matthias

The state of acceleration for Intel GPU is "anything up to Kaby Lake works".
That's... 7th generation? 8th?

IIRC a more generic UEFI framebuffer driver is used rather than vesa on modern
x86 hardware rather than vesa. It's not too bad, depending on your workload.