On Jan 22, 2015, at 1:14, Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:45:47PM -0500, Shawn Webb wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 16:10 +0000, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>> Author: kib
>>> Date: Wed Jan 21 16:10:37 2015
>>> New Revision: 277487
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277487
>>> 
>>> Log:
>>>  An update for the i915 GPU driver, which brings the code up to Linux
>>>  commit 4d93914ae3db4a897ead4b.  Some related drm infrastructure
>>>  changes are imported as needed.
>>> 
>>>  Biggest update is the rewrite of the i915 gem io to more closely
>>>  follow Linux model, althought the mechanism used by FreeBSD port is
>>>  different.
>> 
>> Hey Kostik,
>> 
>> This causes my Haswell laptop to just display a blank screen on bootup.
>> Is there something I should be doing? I just have i915kms_load="YES"
>> in /boot/loader.conf.
> Yes, remove the i915kms_load from your loader.conf.
> 
> Haswell is not supported.

Hi kib@,
Wouldn’t it be better to check for supported PCI/vendor/etc IDs and filter out 
the supported ones, just to avoid people running into issues like this when 
first booting i915kms on Haswell, Broadwell, etc hardware?
Thanks!

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