Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:52:54 +0200 From: Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.org> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD A series support Message-ID: <6500ec392ffb900738af2a50cc28d06f@mail.d2ux.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGwOe2Y8tn8UvO7ZRFRn%2Bh75fj1dpByG9f_Uh0ZsS8VUrMNW0w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGwOe2Y8tn8UvO7ZRFRn%2Bh75fj1dpByG9f_Uh0ZsS8VUrMNW0w@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello Fernando, some months ago I had a Lenovo E145 which was backed by a E1-2500. While I cannot tell you much about your original question, you might want to take a special attention at the wireless chipset of this AMD platform devices. It seems most of them are using Broadcom devices which are poorly supported. Mine was using a Broadcom Chipset which required the Broadcom STA driver which was available for (Debian) Linux, but completely unsupported on FreeBSD. After failing with wrapping the Windows Driver with NDISWrapper ultimately I tried to use a USB Wireless Dongle (Realtek). While this was working, I was unsatisfied with the throughput, so I decided to sell the Laptop and bought a used X220 where everything works out of the Box. Best regards, Matthias Am 2015-08-23 20:18, schrieb Fernando Apesteguía: > Hi all, > > I am thinking of changing my old laptop and a friend of mine talk to > me about the AMD A series. He uses Linux and his experience is good so > far. > > I have a couple of questions I hope you can help me with: > > - Does the combined use of the different Compute Cores (CPU + GPU) to > share workloads need a special support in the OS (in the scheduler for > instance)? If that is the case, how well supported are these APU's in > FreeBSD? > > - Do we have any software in the ports that can monitor the use of > both CPU + GPU cores? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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