[oi-dev] AMDgpu 1.1.2 and OpenChrome 0.5.159 drivers

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:42 PM, ken mays via oi-dev
<oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
> Hello,
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> There are actually two driver versions: AMDgpu and AMDgpu-PRO (full featured, closed kernel sources)
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> AMDgpu driver mainly supports the AMD Radeon R7 260/260X and R9 GPUs.

For information there was a talk by AMD about DAL3 at XDC2016:

https://youtu.be/KIHrjgZJHZA?t=16727

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> Yes, same linux driver.
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> Thanks,
> Ken
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> On Monday, September 26, 2016 10:21 AM, C Bergström <cbergstrom at pathscale.com> wrote:
> sorry - drive-by stupid question. The "AMDGPU" driver is this the same
> things as the new driver going into the linux kernel? The old open
> source driver was called Radeon..  The "amdgpu" driver I'm aware of
> was originally planned to be Fiji class cards (Volcanic Islands?) and
> forward, but they ended up (recently) porting it to Hawaii class cards
> (known at Southern Islands)
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> I'm not sure if this is the same or similar thing and just curious..
> (If it is that would be very cool)
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> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:54 AM, ken mays via oi-dev
> <oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> We have updated and tested 32/64-bit 2D drivers for the AMDgpu 1.1.2 and Openchrome 0.5.159 supported graphic adapters for OI-Hipster.
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>> The AMDgpu driver mainly support AMD Radeon R9 series graphic adapters (see: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Graphics+Adapters).
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>> The OpenChrome 0.5.159 driver is a free and Open Source 2D video driver for the VIA/S3G UniChrome, UniChrome Pro and Chrome9 graphics chipsets: CLE266, KM400/KN400/KM400A/P4M800, CN400/PM800/PN800/PM880, K8M800, CN700/VM800/P4M800Pro, CX700, K8M890, P4M890, P4M900/VN896/CN896, VX800, VX855, VX900.
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>> We'll try to have everything included in the next snapshot release.
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>> Thanks,
>> Ken
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