Today's Radeon r6/7xx drm

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:37:48 -0600
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 17:12 +1100, Alex wrote:
> > Is the new DRM code available for 7-STABLE yet? Will running a csup and 
> > rebuilding get me the updated DRM code?
> 
> Not yet, I'm not going to commit it until I can actually test it.
> Hopefully sometime next week.  I have two competing patch sets... One
> which is derived from what AMD intends to upstream to Linux and one
> derived directly from drm git.  I won't get into the politics right now,
> but it's really becoming difficult to work in drm git, or rather to get
> useful code from drm git.  My intent is to commit the cleaned up code
> that AMD plans to send to Linux.  It is very similar to the code from
> drm git, as AMD has continued to do most of their development in drm
> git.  The code that they intend to upstream has primarily just been
> re-organized slightly and cleaned up.
> 
> The last patch that I made from git should apply to releng_7.  That
> should be this one:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/radeon-r6-7xx-support-022409.patch
> 

Wow!  This is OK.  Using this with the latest xf86-video-radeonhd-devel
and turning on DRI and EXA in xorg.conf results in using a _lot less_
CPU when watching a movie in vlc.

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Gary Jennejohn