desirable graphics card for testing drm-next-kmod wayland/weston

[Mathias Picker]

As a small data point: I'm running a Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX560 on
-STABLE with the amdgpu driver and it works like a charm.

I bought the card to quietly drive a 4K-screen, and it works very well
for that.

glxinfo shows:

Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: X.Org (0x1002)
    Device: Radeon RX 560 Series (POLARIS11 / DRM 3.10.0 / 11.2-
PRERELEASE, LLVM 5.0.1) (0x67ef)
    Version: 18.0.0
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 4019MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.5
    Max compat profile version: 3.0
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1

I'Äve not done any benchmarking, since I don't really need 3D
performance. Blender and kdenlive run smoother than before (with
Intel), but I really don't use either heavily.

Cheers, Mathias

Oh, I'm just noticing this is with drm-next-kmod-4.11.g20180224, not
drm-stable-kmod on -STABLE from May 3:

FreeBSD marcopolo 11.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 11.2-PRERELEASE #1 r333211:
Thu May  3 20:39:20 CEST 2018

Probably historical reasons. I guess stable shoud work too...

Am Sonntag, den 27.05.2018, 14:49 +0300 schrieb Greg V:
> 
> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Denis Polygalov <dpolyg at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > I'd like to play with drm-stable-kmod/drm-next-kmod wayland/weston 
> > and report results to community and maybe dig into the code.
> > Which *AMD Radeon* *PCIe* graphics card would you recommend to buy?
> > The reason I'm asking here is because information regarding
> > support 
> > of AMD Radeon cards here:
> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
> > is seems to be related to only "old" drm2 drivers. Or I just don't 
> > understand all this mess with multiple "drm"s ...
> > Where can I find information about which AMD Radeon card model is
> > the 
> > latest supported by the drm-stable-kmod ?
> > Note that I would like to get more or less working box, not just 
> > kernel panic...
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Polaris (RX 4xx/5xx) is the latest supported card by drm-stable (4.9 
> currently).
> 
> Keep in mind that if you use UEFI boot, you need to disable the EFI 
> framebuffer currently:
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/issues/170
> 
> As for Weston, you might want to check out my fork 
> https://github.com/myfreeweb/weston I'm currently using it as my
> daily 
> desktop as well as for developing Rust bindings 
> https://github.com/myfreeweb/weston-rs
> 
> 
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