From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu Apr 14 19:08:36 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7BAADA6D5 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:08:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmacy@nextbsd.org) Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com (sender163-mail.zoho.com [74.201.84.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 002E410F7 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:08:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmacy@nextbsd.org) Received: from mail.zoho.com by mx.zohomail.com with SMTP id 1460660903580171.0346539385971; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:08:23 -0700 From: Matthew Macy To: "Arto Pekkanen" Cc: Message-ID: <154162c9e5e.def07e19164201.9142009646778346084@nextbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <570FE736.6030803@kapsi.fi> References: <1540c0ceea9.126b592b988423.8774357707501817476@nextbsd.org> <570FE736.6030803@kapsi.fi> Subject: Re: clarifying the state of drm-next-3.9 and next steps MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Zoho Mail X-Mailer: Zoho Mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:08:36 -0000 =20 =20 Thanks for the heads up :)I am especially interested in the GPG= PU support for AMDs, since thiswould actually make FreeBSD x86 rigs very us= eful for power efficientcluster computing. Thus far cheapest alternatives (= on x86 hardware) havebeen based on Windows or Linux.Can I count you as a vo= lunteer to help jmd with user level runtime support? :D-MOn 12.04.2016 22:5= 7, Matthew Macy wrote:> There seems to be some confusion about the state of= drm-next-3.9. All the work is currently going on in jmd's fork of freebsd-= base-graphics:> > https://github.com/iotamudelta/freebsd-base-graphics> > T= he emphasis has been on bringing i915 and the drm code in dev/drm2 closer = to upstream as opposed to a simple driver refresh. I'm currently implementi= ng missing linuxkpi bits and hope to actually be testing in the next week o= r so. > > As of this moment there is nothing available for general consumpt= ion. I very much hope to have this phase done before code freeze. I will up= date the list as soon as there is anything to test. Until then, hold your h= orses.> > The next phase will be more interesting to anyone who isn't simpl= y waiting on bug fixes for Haswell support. My plan is to update DRM to 4.6= and import amdgpu and amdkfd support. I would like to be able to do GPGPU = work using HIP/HSA on my AMD cards. An ETA on 4.6/amdgpu support is difficu= lt to come up with. But certainly it will _not_ be any earlier than end of = May.> > -M> > _______________________________________________> freebsd-x11@= freebsd.org mailing list> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs= d-x11> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g">=20 =20 =20 =20 =20