A few questions about graphics chipsets

[Ken Moffat]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 10:40:15AM +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a system configuration script for FreeBSD, for which I need 
> to know a few things about the major graphics chipsets and their drivers.
> 
> 1) AMD - My own box is Radeon (R5 230), driven by radeon (+radeonkms).
> I now see that there is a separate driver amdgpu. Is this inter-operable 
> with radeon. That is to say, can a user choose either one to drive X 
> under FreeBSD ?
> 
For AMD identification, start at
https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#Decoder_ring_for_engineering_vs_marketing_names

Everything up to Sea Islands uses the radeon driver.  The amdgpu is
for the newest chipsets (Volcanic Islands).

ĸen
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