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by mozumder 3367 days ago
Been looking for Skylake GPU support for BSD. Does it support Skylake OpenCL?

How compatible is this with FreeBSD? Can I test it alongside a FreeBSD distribution with minimal changes? Does it use the same Ports/Packages system? Do I need to recompile/reinstall all applications? Is there ZFS support?
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tiffanyh 3367 days ago
Yes, Skylake is supported.

See https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/supportedhardware/

Re: FreeBSD. Dragonfly forked from FreeBSD around 11 years ago (v4.x). So the two have diverged quite a bit of the years. E.g. Different file systems. Different kernel approaches to SMP. Etc.

The package management system is the same though.

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cat199 3367 days ago
to expand -

Shough package systems are based on the same code, syscall/binary level compatibility has diverged, so it does entail a separate installation on another partition/disk/etc and separate set of application packages, etc.

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