Adding support for AMD GPU Navi 10

[myfreeweb]

On May 23, 2020 5:44:34 PM UTC, Trenton Schulz <trueos at norwegianrockcat.com> wrote:
>I recently purchased a new desktop machine and it came with an AMD Radeon 5700 XT card. It’s a Navi 10 card and, as expected, it doesn’t load on FreeBSD even -current and the devel kmod.
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>From searching online, I see that support was added to the Linux 5.3 kernel.
>The next question is that I don’t want to stomp on someone else’s toes. So, if there are people working on or have plans on trying to do this, I can try to help them out or if nothing else, try and test things out? Maybe I could even document how we go about upgrading to a new version of the Linux DRM? 

manu@ is working on 5.3 in a separate repo:
https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod

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