FreeBSD Continues Improving Hardware Support For Framework Laptops, WiFi Devices
The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025. There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system.
Some of the Q1-2025 achievements for FreeBSD include:
- FreeBSD is still working on a policy for generative AI created code and documentation.
- FreeBSD Ports has landed KDE Plasma 6.3, Qt 6.8.3, Rust 1.85.1, Wine 10.0, and many other package updates.
- Porting the Intel and AMD DRM kernel graphics drivers from Linux 6.7~6.8 over to FreeBSD.
- The Intel IWX WiFi driver has landed in FreeBSD.
- Continued work porting FreeBSD to the PinePhone Pro.
- Bhyvemgr has been seeing progress as a GUI for the Bhyve virtualization written in FreePascal/Lazarus.
- The framework-kmod kernel module continues to be worked on for allowing dynamically dimming of the screen when the computer is not in use and to restore display brightness on user return, based on evdev input driver activity.
A lot of FreeBSD work continues around enhancing support for FreeBSD on laptops. Among those ongoing objectives is for improving the audio drivers, better graphics driver support, WiFi/wireless improvements, more reliale suspend and resume improvements, and more.
Along similar lines, a lot of work continues to happen around Framework Laptop support on FreeBSDs. As part of that there is now ACPI CPPC support for the AMD P-State driver on FreeBSD and suspend/resume improvements. Suspend and resume is now working on the Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 series SoCs. There is also ongoing work for USB4 driver support.
FreeBSD developers also visited the Framework Taipei office to test FreeBSD on the pre-release Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12 devices.
More details on all of these FreeBSD improvements for Q1 via FreeBSD.org.
Some of the Q1-2025 achievements for FreeBSD include:
- FreeBSD is still working on a policy for generative AI created code and documentation.
- FreeBSD Ports has landed KDE Plasma 6.3, Qt 6.8.3, Rust 1.85.1, Wine 10.0, and many other package updates.
- Porting the Intel and AMD DRM kernel graphics drivers from Linux 6.7~6.8 over to FreeBSD.
- The Intel IWX WiFi driver has landed in FreeBSD.
- Continued work porting FreeBSD to the PinePhone Pro.
- Bhyvemgr has been seeing progress as a GUI for the Bhyve virtualization written in FreePascal/Lazarus.
- The framework-kmod kernel module continues to be worked on for allowing dynamically dimming of the screen when the computer is not in use and to restore display brightness on user return, based on evdev input driver activity.
A lot of FreeBSD work continues around enhancing support for FreeBSD on laptops. Among those ongoing objectives is for improving the audio drivers, better graphics driver support, WiFi/wireless improvements, more reliale suspend and resume improvements, and more.
Along similar lines, a lot of work continues to happen around Framework Laptop support on FreeBSDs. As part of that there is now ACPI CPPC support for the AMD P-State driver on FreeBSD and suspend/resume improvements. Suspend and resume is now working on the Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 series SoCs. There is also ongoing work for USB4 driver support.
FreeBSD developers also visited the Framework Taipei office to test FreeBSD on the pre-release Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12 devices.
More details on all of these FreeBSD improvements for Q1 via FreeBSD.org.