On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:01:27AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 06:35:26PM +0200, Simon Mages wrote: > > can somebody tell me which AMD graphics adapters are supported by the > > OpenBSD kernel? > > > > radeon(4) has a very big list of supported adapters or chip families. > > I greped a bit in /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/drm/radeon to see which ones > > are supported. > > I asked a related question not too long back. > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=146915801029888&w=2 > > The answer is essentially that cards up to the HD 6870 are currently > well supported. The Radeon HD 5450 is a good choice that can be > purchased in several configurations and is still available in retail > channels. It also has the bonus of being reasonably priced. > > The more recent (HD 7xxx and later) are supported in the kernel but not > in userland due to needing LLVM. LLVM was just imported into base last > week and has not been hooked to the build yet. Hopefully over the winter > we will see updated radeondrm(4) support. It is being worked on but it's > a big project and has been waiting on LLVM.
The LLVM in the tree will not be installed as libraries suitable for Mesa initially. I'm not aware of anyone working on updating radeondrm at the moment and doing so for basic modesetting support is not tied to LLVM. 2d/3d acceleration for GCN hardware is however.
