diff --git a/autobuild.sh b/autobuild.sh
index b128230ab..bf91951f8 100755
--- a/autobuild.sh
+++ b/autobuild.sh
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ function build_native_dpdk() {
 	local external_dpdk_base_dir
 	local compiler_version
 	local compiler
+	local dpdk_kmods
 
 	compiler=${CC:-gcc}
 
@@ -167,8 +168,13 @@ function build_native_dpdk() {
 		fi
 	fi
 
+	dpdk_kmods="false"
+	if [ "$(uname -s)" = "FreeBSD" ]; then
+		dpdk_kmods="true"
+	fi
+
 	meson build-tmp --prefix="$external_dpdk_dir" --libdir lib \
-		-Denable_docs=false -Denable_kmods=false -Dtests=false \
+		-Denable_docs=false -Denable_kmods="$dpdk_kmods" -Dtests=false \
 		-Dc_link_args="$dpdk_ldflags" -Dc_args="$dpdk_cflags" \
 		-Dmachine=native -Denable_drivers=$(printf "%s," "${DPDK_DRIVERS[@]}")
 	ninja -C "$external_dpdk_base_dir/build-tmp" $MAKEFLAGS
diff --git a/test/common/autotest_common.sh b/test/common/autotest_common.sh
index 110e44781..99bcc9a95 100755
--- a/test/common/autotest_common.sh
+++ b/test/common/autotest_common.sh
@@ -1262,7 +1262,6 @@ function freebsd_update_contigmem_mod() {
 	if [ $(uname) = FreeBSD ]; then
 		kldunload contigmem.ko || true
 		if [ -n "$SPDK_RUN_EXTERNAL_DPDK" ]; then
-			echo "Warning: SPDK only works on FreeBSD with patches that only exist in SPDK's dpdk submodule"
 			cp -f "$SPDK_RUN_EXTERNAL_DPDK/kmod/contigmem.ko" /boot/modules/
 			cp -f "$SPDK_RUN_EXTERNAL_DPDK/kmod/contigmem.ko" /boot/kernel/
 			cp -f "$SPDK_RUN_EXTERNAL_DPDK/kmod/nic_uio.ko" /boot/modules/