Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:05:13 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Today's Radeon r6/7xx drm Message-ID: <20090302190513.0ac3aff8@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <1235842668.1289.90.camel@widget.2hip.net> References: <1235440484.1273.7.camel@widget.2hip.net> <200902271816.57919.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200902271821.45637.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <49A8D5B8.90907@mailinglist.ahhyes.net> <1235842668.1289.90.camel@widget.2hip.net>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:37:48 -0600 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 17:12 +1100, Alex wrote: > > Is the new DRM code available for 7-STABLE yet? Will running a csup and > > rebuilding get me the updated DRM code? > > Not yet, I'm not going to commit it until I can actually test it. > Hopefully sometime next week. I have two competing patch sets... One > which is derived from what AMD intends to upstream to Linux and one > derived directly from drm git. I won't get into the politics right now, > but it's really becoming difficult to work in drm git, or rather to get > useful code from drm git. My intent is to commit the cleaned up code > that AMD plans to send to Linux. It is very similar to the code from > drm git, as AMD has continued to do most of their development in drm > git. The code that they intend to upstream has primarily just been > re-organized slightly and cleaned up. > > The last patch that I made from git should apply to releng_7. That > should be this one: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/radeon-r6-7xx-support-022409.patch > Wow! This is OK. Using this with the latest xf86-video-radeonhd-devel and turning on DRI and EXA in xorg.conf results in using a _lot less_ CPU when watching a movie in vlc. --- Gary Jennejohn
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