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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by ernst_klim on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:09AM (#18670220)
>4.16 DRM

I see. For 11.2 its 4.11, so it didn't support my vega card.

Upgrade to 12 leaded me to kernel panic on startup on my shitty laptop's cpu, this bug [1].

>You aren't using a Linux layer all the way, you are for video card drivers.

I was talking about lack of hardware and software support, so you need a compatibility layer for commercial linux software.

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233534

Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by loeg on Thursday December 13, 2018 @11:29PM (#18678486)
> I was talking about lack of hardware and software support, so you need a compatibility layer for commercial linux software.

The linuxkpi kernel API compatibility layer is for open source software (e.g., dual-licensed BSD/GPL Linux DRM drivers), not for commercial Linux software.

The linuxemul syscall ABI layer can be used to run commercial Linux software, but is an entirely different and unrelated component. It has nothing to do with hardware support. This is like claiming that because WINE exists, Linux uses Windows for hardware support.