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

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Tuesday 26 July 2011 16:01:57 Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 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 ?

Sorry, that's beyond my knowledge.  The folks in #radeon on freenode could 
tell you. 

Adam