Any chance for ATI Radeon 8470 HD graphics ?

[Zach Villers]

Thanks for working on this. I have and amd a10-7700k I could test with if
that would help.
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 7:35 PM Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> wrote:

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>  ---- On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:04:43 -0700 Manish Jain <
> bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote ----
>  > On 13-Aug-16 17:30, freebsd-x11-request at freebsd.org wrote:
>  > > On 08/12/16 08:18, Manish Jain wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  > I have a system with onboard ATI Radeon 8470 HD graphics adapter.
>  > I am currently having to use the vesa driver because radeon does not
>  > work correctly with the chipset. (On Linux, it does, but not on
> FreeBSD).
>  > Is there any chance we could see support for my chipset in an upcoming
>  > release ?
>
> <snip>
>
>  > This is most unfortunate. I had purchased the motherboard and processor
>  > hoping to move to FreeBSD as the only OS. It turns out that FreeBSD is
>  > the only OS which does not work with Radeon HD 8470D graphics. Windows
>  > does, Linux does, but FreeBSD does not. Between running FreeBSD with the
>  > vesa driver (which does not let me play videos smoothly) and the
>  > alternatives, I find it much better to run my hardware on Windows XP for
>  > the time being, despite the fact that 1) MS does not support XP; 2) this
>  > beats the purpose of my hardware upgrade.
>  >
>  > One thing that baffles about FreeBSD is not that FreeBSD is picky about
>  > the hardware supported, but there is no way to determine in advance
>  > whether certain hardware will work on not. It should not be difficult to
>  > put up a web page which lists hardware compatibility ratings for the
>  > most popular hardware available online. Since things like CPU, disk
>
> There is a bit of this online, but it either requires users to do a _much_
> better job of keeping it up to date or having the installer automatically
> send systems configuration info to freebsd.org. The former is not likely
> succeed and the latter is likely to be branded as intrusive and wouldn't
> even tell us how well the device works - just that it's there and there's a
> device driver for it. Unlike some Linux distros, FreeBSD doesn't have
> vendors testing it when they ship. If you can propose a robust solution, at
> the very least for the more full-blown PCBSD installer,  I'm sure someone
> would be inclined to help.
>
> For the more technically minded, it isn't difficult to go in to the
> drivers themselves and look at the PCIID list and check out the
> corresponding model names. That will give you a rough idea if the driver is
> at least intended to supported said device.
>
> In terms of actual support, as opposed to advertised support, you run in
> to the issue that the most recent update to drm drivers from upstream
> (namely Linux) was from Linux 3.8 which was released on Monday, 18 Feb 2013
> - roughly 42 months ago. If support for your hardware came out any more
> recently than that you're out of luck.
>
> Longer term FreeBSD will re-converge with upstream. My drm-next branch is
> in sync with the drm and drivers in Linux 4.7 and I'll be syncing it with
> 4.8-rc1.  I can't yet provide this as an alternative to you because I have
> not had time to iron out the ttm bugs keeping radeon and amdgpu from
> working. Once I'm done with my Kaby Lake tester I'll start looking in to
> that.
>
> Cheers.
> -M
>
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