Thank you for the information, this was very helpful and I'm looking forward to testing the hardware out.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Bridgman, John <John.Bridgman at amd.com> wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the 5170M and 5130M are both based on the Cape Verde > GPU, so they would use the radeon stack rather than the amdgpu stack. Note > that "radeonsi" refers to the Mesa GL driver, which is used with both > radeon and amdgpu - it's primarily the kernel driver that is different > between the stacks. > > > > You can run lspci -nn to get the PCI IDs for the parts (if you have access > to HW). If not, I believe the DID for 5170M was 0x6820 but it can vary from > one OEM to the next. Couldn't find a reference ID for the 5130M but 6821 > might be it. > > > > Support for the parts should be pretty solid although if the IDs aren't > yet in the driver source then the drivers won't recognize them until that > is changed. > > > > *From:* dri-devel [mailto:dri-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] *On > Behalf Of *Alex G.S. > *Sent:* Friday, January 08, 2016 3:01 PM > *To:* dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org > *Subject:* AMD: amdgpu/radeonsi support for mobile FirePro? > > > > Dear Radeon Devs, > > > > What's the support status of the AMD FirePro W5170M and AMD FirePro > W5130M. I'm confused as to whether these will support 'radeonsi' or > 'amdgpu'. After doing exhaustive research I've come across codenames like > Tropo XT/LE and Mars XT/LE. On some forums a pci-id was mentioned '6821' > but I can't find this anywhere in the pcidb lists in either > 'xf86-video-amdgpu' or 'xf86-video-ati'. > > > > When I looked at the the Radeon feature matrix on [1] I'm unable to > categorize these two GPU models into any of the categories > S.Islands, C.Islands or V.Islands. So are these GPU's supported by > 'radeonsi' or by 'amdgpu'? If they're 'radeonsi' what's the support like > for those models, can I expect relatively good performance? > > > > Thank you! > > > > --- Alex G.S. > > > > [1] http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20160109/7daace4e/attachment.html>
