I was encountering the same crashes as some other Braswell-Users. (Black Screen after youtube and pmap_flush_cache in panic message in /var/log/messages)
For *me* those crashes went away as i added two Fixes which Matt Dillon used in Dragonfly BSD. The Patch below was applied to an cvs-checkout from 2017-11-15. Index: i915_gem_gtt.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -p -r1.15 i915_gem_gtt.c --- i915_gem_gtt.c 1 Jul 2017 16:14:10 -0000 1.15 +++ i915_gem_gtt.c 16 Nov 2017 15:51:02 -0000 @@ -778,7 +778,10 @@ static void gen8_ppgtt_clear_pte_range(s num_entries--; } - kunmap_px(ppgtt, pt); + kunmap_px(ppgtt, pt_vaddr); /* XXX dillon, out of order + * patch from linux + * 44a71024 12-Apr-2016 + */ pte = 0; if (++pde == I915_PDES) { @@ -1317,6 +1320,8 @@ static int gen8_alloc_va_range_3lvl(stru gen8_for_each_pde(pt, pd, pd_start, pd_len, temp, pde) { /* Same reasoning as pd */ WARN_ON(!pt); + if (pt == NULL) /* XXX dillon hack */ + continue; /* XXX dillon hack */ WARN_ON(!pd_len); WARN_ON(!gen8_pte_count(pd_start, pd_len));