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floatboth on May 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

FreeBSD does not import GPU drivers into base, they're now packaged and under the GPL (they depend on some GPL code imported from Linux).

The "fun" part with these drivers is FDT attachment, but work is ongoing in FreeBSD on this.

trasz on May 14, 2019 [–]

That's the current situation - but the drivers themselves are mostly free of GPL; the GPL-derived parts in linuxkpi can be (and eventually will) be rewritten to make them BSD-licensed, and that would make it possible to go back to importing GPU drivers into base, if the DRM developers wish so.

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