From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 20:02:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE1A106564A for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:02:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from mail.zoral.com.ua (mx0.zoral.com.ua [91.193.166.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6301C8FC15 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (root@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua [10.1.1.148]) by mail.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p6QK1vlH061792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:01:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6QK1vV8089779; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:01:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: (from kostik@localhost) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p6QK1vk9089778; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:01:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:01:57 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov To: Adam K Kirchhoff Message-ID: <20110726200157.GN17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <4E2E9F0F.5030209@lifec0re.net> <4E2F1A1A.1010207@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dGBDEx8Ycw1mGAPo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E2F1A1A.1010207@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.2 at skuns.kiev.zoral.com.ua X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on skuns.kiev.zoral.com.ua Cc: x11@freebsd.org, brahmann@lifec0re.net Subject: Re: Hi, i have a question about radeonHD driver on amd64 freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:02:06 -0000 --dGBDEx8Ycw1mGAPo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:48:42PM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > On 07/26/2011 02:00 PM, Ren? Ladan wrote: > >2011/7/26 brahmann: > >>Hi, my question is: when will be the support of Radeon HD5670 and highe= r=20 > >>on > >>freebsd amd64 arch? > >I did originally write the port for this driver but the current maintain= er=20 > >is > >x11@freebsd.org (cc'd). I'm not using this driver anymore either. >=20 >=20 > As you can see from the upstream commit messages (=20 > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/ ), the=20 > radeonhd driver is no longer developed. You will not see any more=20 > features or hardware support added to this driver. >=20 > The radeon driver (aka xf86-video-ati ) should, theoretically, support=20 > 2D modesetting on HD5xxx GPUs. Acceleration on HD5xxx GPUs as well as=20 > acceleration and modesetting on HD6xxx GPUs requires kernel=20 > modesetting. As far as I know, no one has begun work on KMS for radeon= =20 > GPUs on FreeBSD. Does it need KMS for acceleration ? Or, does it need some execution manager instead ? In particular, can acceleration work with UMS + kernel memory and exec manager ? --dGBDEx8Ycw1mGAPo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4vHTUACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4hZxwCgtRf0AYr1kugSqLXirlFvRK+v YBgAoOx1ly4x2QnZjzq8dF5HLMzIxtfP =6EJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dGBDEx8Ycw1mGAPo--