Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:53:31 +0000 From: Zach Villers <zachvatwork@gmail.com> To: Matthew Macy <mmacy@nextbsd.org>, Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any chance for ATI Radeon 8470 HD graphics ? Message-ID: <CAKHp9yovy62GybpuYaPOeqvzYuwsWtyM3Xkfb6GZ-UXQsPFEjg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <15686428786.10af5398f142319.7100122471836056990@nextbsd.org> References: <mailman.57.1471089601.58418.freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> <VI1PR02MB097446935B86D0E0A2DEE429F6100@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <15686428786.10af5398f142319.7100122471836056990@nextbsd.org>
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Thanks for working on this. I have and amd a10-7700k I could test with if that would help. On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 7:35 PM Matthew Macy <mmacy@nextbsd.org> wrote: > > > > ---- On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:04:43 -0700 Manish Jain < > bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote ---- > > On 13-Aug-16 17:30, freebsd-x11-request@freebsd.org wrote: > > > On 08/12/16 08:18, Manish Jain wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I have a system with onboard ATI Radeon 8470 HD graphics adapter. > > I am currently having to use the vesa driver because radeon does not > > work correctly with the chipset. (On Linux, it does, but not on > FreeBSD). > > Is there any chance we could see support for my chipset in an upcoming > > release ? > > <snip> > > > This is most unfortunate. I had purchased the motherboard and processor > > hoping to move to FreeBSD as the only OS. It turns out that FreeBSD is > > the only OS which does not work with Radeon HD 8470D graphics. Windows > > does, Linux does, but FreeBSD does not. Between running FreeBSD with the > > vesa driver (which does not let me play videos smoothly) and the > > alternatives, I find it much better to run my hardware on Windows XP for > > the time being, despite the fact that 1) MS does not support XP; 2) this > > beats the purpose of my hardware upgrade. > > > > One thing that baffles about FreeBSD is not that FreeBSD is picky about > > the hardware supported, but there is no way to determine in advance > > whether certain hardware will work on not. It should not be difficult to > > put up a web page which lists hardware compatibility ratings for the > > most popular hardware available online. Since things like CPU, disk > > There is a bit of this online, but it either requires users to do a _much_ > better job of keeping it up to date or having the installer automatically > send systems configuration info to freebsd.org. The former is not likely > succeed and the latter is likely to be branded as intrusive and wouldn't > even tell us how well the device works - just that it's there and there's a > device driver for it. Unlike some Linux distros, FreeBSD doesn't have > vendors testing it when they ship. If you can propose a robust solution, at > the very least for the more full-blown PCBSD installer, I'm sure someone > would be inclined to help. > > For the more technically minded, it isn't difficult to go in to the > drivers themselves and look at the PCIID list and check out the > corresponding model names. That will give you a rough idea if the driver is > at least intended to supported said device. > > In terms of actual support, as opposed to advertised support, you run in > to the issue that the most recent update to drm drivers from upstream > (namely Linux) was from Linux 3.8 which was released on Monday, 18 Feb 2013 > - roughly 42 months ago. If support for your hardware came out any more > recently than that you're out of luck. > > Longer term FreeBSD will re-converge with upstream. My drm-next branch is > in sync with the drm and drivers in Linux 4.7 and I'll be syncing it with > 4.8-rc1. I can't yet provide this as an alternative to you because I have > not had time to iron out the ttm bugs keeping radeon and amdgpu from > working. Once I'm done with my Kaby Lake tester I'll start looking in to > that. > > Cheers. > -M > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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