From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 2 18:05:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD9A106567C; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:05:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout4.freenet.de (mout4.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE578FC45; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:05:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.13] (helo=3.mx.freenet.de) by mout4.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #76) id 1LeCVw-0005Q2-Dy; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:05:16 +0100 Received: from td786.t.pppool.de ([89.55.215.134]:28199 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 3.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #79) id 1LeCVv-0006cT-Kx; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:05:15 +0100 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:05:13 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Robert Noland Message-ID: <20090302190513.0ac3aff8@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <1235842668.1289.90.camel@widget.2hip.net> References: <1235440484.1273.7.camel@widget.2hip.net> <200902271816.57919.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200902271821.45637.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <49A8D5B8.90907@mailinglist.ahhyes.net> <1235842668.1289.90.camel@widget.2hip.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Today's Radeon r6/7xx drm X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:05:19 -0000 On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:37:48 -0600 Robert Noland wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 17:12 +1100, Alex wrote: > > Is the new DRM code available for 7-STABLE yet? Will running a csup and > > rebuilding get me the updated DRM code? > > Not yet, I'm not going to commit it until I can actually test it. > Hopefully sometime next week. I have two competing patch sets... One > which is derived from what AMD intends to upstream to Linux and one > derived directly from drm git. I won't get into the politics right now, > but it's really becoming difficult to work in drm git, or rather to get > useful code from drm git. My intent is to commit the cleaned up code > that AMD plans to send to Linux. It is very similar to the code from > drm git, as AMD has continued to do most of their development in drm > git. The code that they intend to upstream has primarily just been > re-organized slightly and cleaned up. > > The last patch that I made from git should apply to releng_7. That > should be this one: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/radeon-r6-7xx-support-022409.patch > Wow! This is OK. Using this with the latest xf86-video-radeonhd-devel and turning on DRI and EXA in xorg.conf results in using a _lot less_ CPU when watching a movie in vlc. --- Gary Jennejohn