Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:38:47 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.org> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD A series support Message-ID: <CAGwOe2ZwFeC38NiZfy1a%2B9p4sn6B9ubkO0RNuR27WewQ=k8=tg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6500ec392ffb900738af2a50cc28d06f@mail.d2ux.org> References: <CAGwOe2Y8tn8UvO7ZRFRn%2Bh75fj1dpByG9f_Uh0ZsS8VUrMNW0w@mail.gmail.com> <6500ec392ffb900738af2a50cc28d06f@mail.d2ux.org>
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.org> wro= te: > 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. I usually don't use the wireless card (lack of habit I suppose), but it's good to know anyway. I Googled this question and found some information that suggest that the OS needs to support this. This project is an example: https://github.com/HSAFoundation/HSA-Drivers-Linux-AMD Other interesting links: https://community.amd.com/message/1308713#1308713 https://community.amd.com/message/1306778#1306778 Thanks! > > Best regards, > Matthias > > > > Am 2015-08-23 20:18, schrieb Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa: >> >> 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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