clarifying the state of drm-next-3.9 and next steps

[Arto Pekkanen]

Can't promise anything for certain. I don't have a Radeon chip or a
spare rig right now, but I might get one later. If not, I might be able
to fix a cheap, older laptop with a Radeon GPU.

I've no experience systems level programming or anything like that. I
was thinking more about *coin mining or SETI at Home, you know, the kinda
entry level, brick layer stuff wannabe hackers run on their petty home
servers. I could try enabling AMD GPGPU option in some *coin miner in
the ports tree, or if there is no such miner app available try to port
one for FreeBSD, provided that the required libraries are made available
at the time.

On 14.04.2016 22:08, Matthew Macy wrote:
> 
> 
>     Thanks for the heads up :)
> 
>     I am especially interested in the GPGPU support for AMDs, since this
>     would actually make FreeBSD x86 rigs very useful for power efficient
>     cluster computing. Thus far cheapest alternatives (on x86 hardware) have
>     been based on Windows or Linux.
> 
> 
>     Can I count you as a volunteer to help jmd with user level runtime
>     support? :D
> 
> 
>     -M
> 
> 
> 
>     On 12.04.2016 22:57, Matthew Macy wrote:
>     > There seems to be some confusion about the state of drm-next-3.9.
>     All the work is currently going on in jmd's fork of
>     freebsd-base-graphics:
>     >
>     > https://github.com/iotamudelta/freebsd-base-graphics
>     >
>     > The emphasis has been on bringing i915 and the drm code in
>     dev/drm2 closer to upstream as opposed to a simple driver refresh.
>     I'm currently implementing missing linuxkpi bits and hope to
>     actually be testing in the next week or so.
>     >
>     > As of this moment there is nothing available for general
>     consumption. I very much hope to have this phase done before code
>     freeze. I will update the list as soon as there is anything to test.
>     Until then, hold your horses.
>     >
>     > The next phase will be more interesting to anyone who isn't simply
>     waiting on bug fixes for Haswell support. My plan is to update DRM
>     to 4.6 and import amdgpu and amdkfd support. I would like to be able
>     to do GPGPU work using HIP/HSA on my AMD cards. An ETA on 4.6/amdgpu
>     support is difficult to come up with. But certainly it will _not_ be
>     any earlier than end of May.
>     >
>     > -M
>     >
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