On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 03:10:15AM -0400, Joseph Mayer wrote: > Hi! > > Radeon drivers are specific per Radeon microarchitecture and Radeon > microarchitecture version. > > The Radeon microarchitectures to date are TS 1, TS 2, TS 3, GCN 1, GCN > 2, GCN 3, GCN 4, GCN 5 (TS = TeraScale and GCN = Graphics Core Next), > in that ascending chronological order. [1]
Terascale is r600, so there are more than just that. The drivers in Mesa are radeon (r100), r200, r300, r600, radeonsi. > > > First, thank you very much jsg@ for that you committed full OpenBSD > kernel support for the radeondrm(4) driver today! [2] > > Previously, while Xorg's radeondrm(4) driver supported all cards up to > GCN 2, OpenBSD's kernel supported the Radeons up to GCN 1 only. The > radeon(4) man page listed all cards up to GCN 2, but only the cards up > to GCN 1 were actually supported by OpenBSD. > > jsg@'s diff today extends radeondrm(4) to support Radeons up to GCN 2. It is worth reiterating that there is no self contained 2d acceleration in the xorg driver for GCN/radeonsi parts. Acceleration is only via glamor and requires Mesa to work. The radeonsi driver in Mesa is not built as it has build time and run time dependencies on libLLVM and libelf which are not in src or xenocara. And to use libLLVM from LLVM 6.0 a newer version of Mesa than what is in the xenocara tree is required (ie 17.3). Mesa 17.x triggers some kind of graphical corruption on Intel hardware for reasons still unclear so xenocara remains on Mesa 13.0.6. > > > The major move with Radeon graphics cards today, is their move from the > radeondrm(4) driver (called "xf86-video-ati" by Xorg and "radeon" on > Linux) [3], to the "amdgpu" driver (called "xf86-video-amdgpu" by Xorg) > [4]. > > All new Radeon are driven by the amdgpu driver: > > The radeondrm driver supports all Radeon cards up to and including GCN > 2. GCN 2 was released 2013 and the last GCN 2 card was released 2015. > No more GCN 2 cards will be coming. Parts get rebadged through multiple generations of marketing names, especially on the low end. > > The amdgpu driver supports all new Radeon cards from GCN 1.2 and up. There are build time options for 'enable experimental support for SI asics' and 'enable support for CIK asics' which seem to not be the default. > > This means the amdgpu driver is needed for GCN 3 and newer Radeons, and > GCN 3 cards started coming to the market 2014. > > amdgpu(4) has not been ported to OpenBSD yet. [5] > > > I am not perfectly clear about the max feature set in the GCN 2 cards, > maybe I will make a post later about what you can and cannot do with > amdgpu(4) (not yet ported) vs. radeondrm(4) cards, however more modern > features like Displayport 1.4 and 1.3 support, support for higher > resolutions, MST (Multi-Stream Transport), newer video codecs with > higher resolutions etc., appear to be only in the newer GCN 5 and GCN 4 > cards, which are supported only by the amdgpu driver. There are MST parts in radeondrm though they may be experimental. Many of the GCN parts covered by radeondrm are advertised as being able to support 4k SST/MST on displayport. > > The Radeon GPU:s are important in OpenBSD's ecosystem as they are the > only way to increase graphics functionality, that not involves changing > CPU to Intel's latest, and hence change motherboard and other hardware. > > > Do you have plans to port amdgpu? > > Would particular hardware donations or other donations be of help? I have no plans regarding amdgpu. Most people seem to be interested from the point of view of polaris/vega which are not supported in linux 4.4. Ignoring the parts of the shared drm/ttm code that would have to be updated the latest drivers/gpu/drm/amd in linux has over 1.5 million lines of code. Which is multiple times larger than the complete OpenBSD kernel source...
