From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu Apr 14 21:10:41 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B56FADA71B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:10:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com) Received: from nm18-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm18-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.213.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CFF3C1291 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:10:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1460668232; bh=s2XnbtdGstIegyDiK2A7rjSa4xridNxrNOsigaQndXE=; h=Subject:To:References:Cc:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=kTcy6FifIWY91AJkxxPw7gt5l7UkHLOXSBI/dT28BRPC4eSb5IR8yvhNQh8Os30q1qQKz2L4O3e+wwOVRhZWbCROultgA9cQIJRN98krx1PPgN6PPA7MwQyOe9LbaybQsUqw83+qGr1EinHyFBKcI0DeovSR0OTBg/S9SopZpxi78MGQ7YuLNo3ojk8tBBRiJIexOIuPth0cwF8WAmq+7hCETo74sAVaoLCkW/1nTUzielFGUHavh314dWsfs9mDM83CE6MXSpGkUHjfQWdB7IYrxOT/4LO0aAxH7UuzDmF1DeXMOrLqLKoD1Cz0qqyFN/kPz9fHgaVDq7cyiJ3i1Q== Received: from [66.196.81.173] by nm18.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Apr 2016 21:10:32 -0000 Received: from [98.139.211.199] by tm19.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Apr 2016 21:10:32 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp208.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Apr 2016 21:10:32 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 659385.70585.bm@smtp208.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 9dRQPaUVM1mBqJZ02DjEGt8zll.NWH1SBdbpclIWjAXEAef o0WNqdYMWgkqgYRZVYdOhB4cG.kxmcZtOyJQWlrZfU2hsPR6PB8T7eHbnIdP FF4MV8xwCz8Pz7yjbjt8RGEDdLVE127G8Zs6T8FGqZAQGZI6VopQh8JaEqzy KQ21y6Xf5g6fyTaghWdzI8CN7Yzr4rix__8_6vg3XSxT9OBEYVkaZG_kkxAJ IIqXiPCJdq2OC_xGQ9OTUPDm.mJeJbURels4J6xp15o99kV71fCuAC31YKO7 72isqMNHK2XezzfJ4Vglv3q1H8E6spTZjw0rEMFHpLhNPE2oc_6fTgpyjjBn PWGtLjmYDKTt1m4t0XdfNaqv5rbaX5DpN4rBFeQccABHrlU00_ZhZ4C4h4fg NuvO.PBMvebVuPRZuwmX30ShKM8iV1vqrTPAqKpsk30yXuVlu2U5.LRottRy _D60eu7ZFPsviwWd1U7_941B.38pngMrppAyC74NA1NYEbXznfN5Q.td1._M QSPM2sVeidiOEZNEPhYfytCnOIYIc77HYUA-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: 9sPoSQ2swBBlERuQ.0vs8XLc_MeClW0- Subject: AMD GPUs (was Re: clarifying the state of drm-next-3.9 and next steps) To: Matthew Macy , Arto Pekkanen References: <1540c0ceea9.126b592b988423.8774357707501817476@nextbsd.org> <570FE736.6030803@kapsi.fi> <154162c9e5e.def07e19164201.9142009646778346084@nextbsd.org> <570FFDD8.1080700@kapsi.fi> <154167f380a.11029a097214164.5670903735512919638@nextbsd.org> <57100336.8080101@kapsi.fi> <154168eebfa.120e8391b214980.2542727951982765933@nextbsd.org> Cc: "" From: Anthony Jenkins Message-ID: <57100747.8060003@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:10:31 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <154168eebfa.120e8391b214980.2542727951982765933@nextbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:10:41 -0000 On 04/14/2016 04:55 PM, Matthew Macy wrote: > ---- On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:53:10 -0700 Arto Pekkanen wrote ---- > > Ah okay ... hmmm, that would mean Radeon R9 -series gfx cards right? > > Yes. > > > In that case I'll have to see if I can get such a card somewhere dirt > > cheap. No promises though. > > > > If I happen to get Fiji architecture based device somewhere I would help > > in testing AMD GPGPU. > > Polaris is coming out shortly, at which point lower-end Fiji cards will probably come down in price. > > -M I have a Radeon HD 8610G, trying to get set up to port the Linux radeonkms files over (or does amdgpu cover my card?). Happy to help test anything. Anthony > > On 14.04.2016 23:38, Matthew Macy wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > ---- On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:30:16 -0700 Arto Pekkanen wrote ---- > > > > Can't promise anything for certain. I don't have a Radeon chip or a > > > > spare rig right now, but I might get one later. If not, I might be able > > > > to fix a cheap, older laptop with a Radeon GPU. > > > > > > > > I've no experience systems level programming or anything like that. I > > > > was thinking more about *coin mining or SETI@Home, you know, the kinda > > > > entry level, brick layer stuff wannabe hackers run on their petty home > > > > servers. I could try enabling AMD GPGPU option in some *coin miner in > > > > the ports tree, or if there is no such miner app available try to port > > > > one for FreeBSD, provided that the required libraries are made available > > > > at the time. > > > > > > The HSA/HCC code that I'm looking at only supports Fiji chips. An older Radeon won't buy you anything unless you can piece together the OpenCL bits. > > > > > > -M > > > > > > > > > > On 14.04.2016 22:08, Matthew Macy wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the heads up :) > > > > > > > > > > I am especially interested in the GPGPU support for AMDs, since this > > > > > would actually make FreeBSD x86 rigs very useful for power efficient > > > > > cluster computing. Thus far cheapest alternatives (on x86 hardware) have > > > > > been based on Windows or Linux. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can I count you as a volunteer to help jmd with user level runtime > > > > > support? :D > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -M > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12.04.2016 22:57, Matthew Macy wrote: > > > > > > There seems to be some confusion about the state of drm-next-3.9. > > > > > All the work is currently going on in jmd's fork of > > > > > freebsd-base-graphics: > > > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/iotamudelta/freebsd-base-graphics > > > > > > > > > > > > The emphasis has been on bringing i915 and the drm code in > > > > > dev/drm2 closer to upstream as opposed to a simple driver refresh. > > > > > I'm currently implementing missing linuxkpi bits and hope to > > > > > actually be testing in the next week or so. > > > > > > > > > > > > As of this moment there is nothing available for general > > > > > consumption. I very much hope to have this phase done before code > > > > > freeze. I will update the list as soon as there is anything to test. > > > > > Until then, hold your horses. > > > > > > > > > > > > The next phase will be more interesting to anyone who isn't simply > > > > > waiting on bug fixes for Haswell support. My plan is to update DRM > > > > > to 4.6 and import amdgpu and amdkfd support. I would like to be able > > > > > to do GPGPU work using HIP/HSA on my AMD cards. An ETA on 4.6/amdgpu > > > > > support is difficult to come up with. But certainly it will _not_ be > > > > > any earlier than end of May. > > > > > > > > > > > > -M > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > > > > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > > > "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > > > > > " > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Anthony Jenkins