Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:53:35 -0400 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <akirchhoff135014@comcast.net> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi, i have a question about radeonHD driver on amd64 freebsd Message-ID: <201107261653.36226.akirchhoff135014@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20110726200157.GN17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <4E2E9F0F.5030209@lifec0re.net> <4E2F1A1A.1010207@comcast.net> <20110726200157.GN17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Tuesday 26 July 2011 16:01:57 Kostik Belousov wrote: > 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 > > >>higher on > > >>freebsd amd64 arch? > > > > > >I did originally write the port for this driver but the current > > >maintainer is > > >x11@freebsd.org (cc'd). I'm not using this driver anymore either. > > > > As you can see from the upstream commit messages ( > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/ ), the > > radeonhd driver is no longer developed. You will not see any more > > features or hardware support added to this driver. > > > > The radeon driver (aka xf86-video-ati ) should, theoretically, support > > 2D modesetting on HD5xxx GPUs. Acceleration on HD5xxx GPUs as well as > > acceleration and modesetting on HD6xxx GPUs requires kernel > > modesetting. As far as I know, no one has begun work on KMS for radeon > > 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 ? Sorry, that's beyond my knowledge. The folks in #radeon on freenode could tell you. Adam
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