From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Mon Aug 8 17:34:35 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 8261DBB2BF7 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (unknown [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64AAA1D02 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from pop.rubicorp.com (72-34-113-100.race.com [72.34.113.100]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id c4b30649 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 10:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Radeon driver sync with linux To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <20160808113530.GA30412@nobby.asti.ch> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 10:34:33 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160808113530.GA30412@nobby.asti.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:34:35 -0000 On 08/08/2016 04:35, Stefan Ott wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 03:08:57AM +0000, Anindya Mukherjee wrote: >> Very interested in this; I have several machines with various Radeon GPUs. If there is anything I can do with my very limited abilities, I'd be more than willing to put in the time. > > Same here. While I only have one recent Radeon GPU to test > with, I would be interested in trying to help. > there is heaps of work in this github repo to bring the i915 GPU in-sync with the 4.6 linux kernel. mmacy who is spearheading this effort is also keen to support AMD GPU's as well - and I believe some work has started to make that so: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki YMMV as I've only been focusing on Haswell and Skylake support (both of which have been working great) - but this branch is under active development. Cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org