Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:01:57 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Adam K Kirchhoff <akirchhoff135014@comcast.net> Cc: x11@freebsd.org, brahmann@lifec0re.net Subject: Re: Hi, i have a question about radeonHD driver on amd64 freebsd Message-ID: <20110726200157.GN17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <4E2F1A1A.1010207@comcast.net> References: <4E2E9F0F.5030209@lifec0re.net> <CADL2u4hrSLQ8=tUJ4Ny8myx%2BUqB1oLVq8=vD1xzLxd=Jh04WLg@mail.gmail.com> <4E2F1A1A.1010207@comcast.net>
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--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<brahmann@lifec0re.net>: > >>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--
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