Matt Turner posted on Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:16:12 -0800 as excerpted: > # Matt Turner <[email protected]> (26 Jan 2017) > # Dead and replaced by media-libs/mesa[video_cards_radeonsi] > # (or the proprietary amdgpu-pro, which is not in tree). > # Masked for removal in 30 days. > # Bug #582406 > x11-drivers/ati-drivers > x11-libs/amd-adl-sdk > x11-libs/xvba-video
What about folks running pre-si radeons? Radeon southern-island generation isn't that old, you know. Even if anything older is abandoned by the proprietary drivers (I wouldn't know as I won't do proprietary drivers), people may still be running older versions, with older kernels if required, and media-libs/ mesa with radeonsi isn't the correct migration path for them. FWIW I was running Turks (northern-islands, pre-southern) until a few weeks ago when I upgraded to a 4k TV as a primary display and decided to upgrade the graphics to better handle it while I was at it. (Tho for anyone thinking about it, the rx460, aka polaris11, I purchased, ended up being a poor choice as despite the hardware apparently supporting 3840x2160@60Hz, the freedomware drivers at least, apparently don't yet, so at that resolution I'm stuck at the same 30Hz that I believe I would have been stuck with on the older Turks card, which works better otherwise as the drivers for it have had longer to mature.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
