Re: drm-legacy-kmod vs. drm-kmod
Robert Huff <[email protected]>
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Warner Losh writes: > > > This is not about increased hardware performance; the old chip > > > did just fine for that system. It's about having the hardware to > > > support the software that's in active development. > > > > radeonkms is still supported – so everything R600, from the earliest HD > > something to the R5 ones, should work. > > > > Active *development* is happening on GCN GPUs supported by amdgpu. > > > > > > Keep in mind that our "legacy" port is.. well.. legacy *in terms of > > porting*. It's manually ported instead of writing a compatibility layer > > which is how the current port works. > > The legacy port is stuck on older Linux code because of that, but *Linux > > did not drop support for older GPUs in the same drivers* so the new port > > should work just as well. > > It's also legacy in terms of the APIs it uses. This means that over time other > things will shift away from those APIs (as happened with xf86-ati-video-legacy > port) and as that happens, support for it will diminish and eventually go away. > That's much less likely to happen with the amdgpu driver. <jumps up and down, pointing emphatically> Bingo! Thank you. Respectfully, Robert Huff _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"