Work in progress: AMD GPUs KMS support

Olivier Smedts olivier at gid0.org
Wed Feb 20 11:46:33 UTC 2013


2013/2/20 Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at freebsd.org>:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to announce that work has started on AMD GPUs
> kernel-modesetting support. Thanks to the help of Konstantin Belousov
> who provided a port of TTM, and Alexander Kabaev who made a first
> buildable port of Linux 3.4's radeon driver, the project reached a state
> where a device can attach.
>
> A wiki page is available, where you'll find status updates, as well as
> links to the code.
>   https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU

Very good to hear !

> Note however that, currently, there's nothing to play with: the project
> is at a very early stage!
>
> --
> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>

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