GoKawiilOpenBSD 8.0 updates graphics drivers to Linux 6.18 baseline, adds Intel Arc support
OpenBSD's upcoming 8.0 release will ship inteldrm, radeondrm and amdgpu graphics drivers synced to the Linux 6.18.y/6.18.53 driver stack, according to developer Jonathan Gray. The update adds support for Intel's Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) GPUs, and amd64 kernel virtual address space has been expanded to 512G, allowing more than 4G of VRAM to be mapped for uses like Vulkan GPU compute. The release also makes Clang/LLVM 22 the base compiler across Clang-supported architectures, including sparc64, which has now switched to Clang by default.