The radeon marketing names are a mess, each generation of marketing
number names can contain multiple generations of hardware with varying
levels of support.
We don't have support in the kernel for the OLAND and HAINAN parts and
only support basic modesetting on some of the GCN/Southern Islands parts.
Have a look at
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/
and avoid any Southern Islands or Sea Islands parts if
you're interested in acceleration.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:58:06AM +0100, Stefan Wollny wrote:
Hi there!
As I think of replacing my old laptop with a new Lenovo S540 I checked
radeon(4) if the 'HD 8670M' might be supported.
I noticed the following on the man page that appears to be somewhat
strange:
OLAND Radeon HD 8000 series
HAINAN Radeon HD 8000 series
My first guess is that this is a typo on one of the chips. Otherwise I
would appreciate a short hint if the above mentioned radeon card is
support at this time.
Cheers,
STEFAN
