Hi, i have a question about radeonHD driver on amd64 freebsd

[Kostik Belousov]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:48:42PM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> On 07/26/2011 02:00 PM, Ren? Ladan wrote:
> >2011/7/26 brahmann<brahmann at lifec0re.net>:
> >>Hi, my question is: when will be the support of Radeon HD5670 and higher 
> >>on
> >>freebsd amd64 arch?
> >I did originally write the port for this driver but the current maintainer 
> >is
> >x11 at freebsd.org (cc'd).  I'm not using this driver anymore either.
> 
> 
> As you can see from the upstream commit messages ( 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/ ), the 
> radeonhd driver is no longer developed.  You will not see any more 
> features or hardware support added to this driver.
> 
> The radeon driver (aka xf86-video-ati ) should, theoretically, support 
> 2D modesetting on HD5xxx GPUs.  Acceleration on HD5xxx GPUs as well as 
> acceleration and modesetting on HD6xxx GPUs requires kernel 
> modesetting.  As far as I know, no one has begun work on KMS for radeon 
> GPUs on FreeBSD.

Does it need KMS for acceleration ? Or, does it need some execution
manager instead ?

In particular, can acceleration work with UMS + kernel memory and
exec manager ?
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