From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 27 05:58:40 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719CB9C23AF; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:58:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias@d2ux.org) Received: from d2ux.org (static.140.151.9.5.clients.your-server.de [5.9.151.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C359AB; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:58:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias@d2ux.org) Received: from d2ux.org (unknown [10.0.0.4]) by d2ux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D8F1FE57B; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:52:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from d2ux.org ([10.0.0.4]) by d2ux.org (d2ux.org [10.0.0.4]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aHuHh5JNNosO; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:52:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.d2ux.org (unknown [10.0.0.7]) by d2ux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF341FD73E; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:52:54 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:52:54 +0200 From: Matthias Petermann To: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= Cc: User Questions , owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD A series support In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6500ec392ffb900738af2a50cc28d06f@mail.d2ux.org> X-Sender: matthias@d2ux.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:58:40 -0000 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"