Good news! TearFree has been backported to the accelerated modesetting(4) driver on #OpenBSD -current. This driver is used on most modern Intel GPUs going back several generations. Support for TearFre
from brynet@bsd.network to (none) on 09 Jun 2025 13:20
https://bsd.network/users/brynet/statuses/114655260755077237

Good news! TearFree has been backported to the accelerated modesetting(4) driver on #OpenBSD -current. This driver is used on most modern Intel GPUs going back several generations.

Support for TearFree has existed in the upstream modesetting(4) driver for years without making it into a released version.

matthieu@ modified xenocara/xserver/*: Backport TearFree page flips for the modesetting driver from X.Org master.

Work done by tedu@ based on previous diffs by jcs@ and stsp@.
One bug fix in master by me. tested and ok tb@. commit on behalf of tedu@

More context: https://marc.info/?t=174917934900001&r=1&w=2

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