From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 21:06:55 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 C3D5A106564A for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:06:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akirchhoff135014@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D138FC16 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.71]) by QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Cktg1h0051YDfWL5Bktgeo; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:53:40 +0000 Received: from sorrow.ashke.com ([174.57.84.251]) by omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Ckte1h01a5RMJ3S3gktfwT; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:53:39 +0000 From: Adam K Kirchhoff To: Kostik Belousov Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:53:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E2E9F0F.5030209@lifec0re.net> <4E2F1A1A.1010207@comcast.net> <20110726200157.GN17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20110726200157.GN17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107261653.36226.akirchhoff135014@comcast.net> Cc: x11@freebsd.org 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 21:06:55 -0000 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: > > >>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