Radeon r6/7xx DRM patches available

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Monday 23 February 2009 07:05:23 Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:08:36 -0600
>
> Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Ok, I just put up a set of patches against -CURRENT for the r6/7xx drm
> > support.  I CAN'T TEST THESE YET.  All I can tell you at this point is
> > that it builds and that it should work, at least for some definition of
> > work.
> >
> > These patches should also apply to -STABLE, possibly with a little fuzz.
> > They will not apply to 7.1-RELEASE.
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/radeon-r6-7xx-support.patch
>
> Well, the kernel mow sees the graphics controller in my AMD 780G:
>
> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xee00-0xeeff mem
> 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfdfe0000-0xfdfeffff,0xfde00000-0xfdefffff irq 18
> at device 5.0 on pci1
> drm0: <ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics> on vgapci00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
> vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 200806130/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
>
> Not sure what that gets me.  Erm, the usbus stuff looks rather weird.
> This is on PCIe.

If you are using the r600-r700-support branch of the radeonhd driver, it will 
give you EXA and Xv support, though EXA may still be slower than the current 
shadowfb acceleration.

Adam


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