It's the prtoblem to load the drm-next modules with the kldload command when the firmware.ko is used as the separate kernel module due missing dependency definition for linuxkpi_gpl2 the log messages are the folowing Apr 4 08:46:41 macbsd kernel: link_elf_obj: symbol firmware_get undefined Apr 4 08:46:41 macbsd kernel: linker_load_file: Unsupported file type Apr 4 08:46:41 macbsd kernel: KLD drm.ko: depends on linuxkpi_gplv2 - not available or version mismatch Apr 4 08:46:42 macbsd kernel: linker_load_file: Unsupported file type Apr 4 08:46:42 macbsd kernel: KLD i915kms.ko: depends on drmn - not available or version mismatch Apr 4 08:46:42 macbsd kernel: linker_load_file: Unsupported file type And the problem was solved by as it's desribed above. It seems like the following issue is related https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223427 Nick
Should be fixed via the update in ports r471368.