Hi, As someone with a Radeon / Intel hybrid/dual graphics chip.
I can only emphasise what Matt says below. It's a PITA currently. Having said that ... I don't see how this can be made simpler, unless we have a tool of sorts that when run on *any* hardware gives you what this needs to be set to, or unconditionally install all possible drivers (something I'd prefer to avoid completely). Kind Regards, Jaco On 2019/12/17 23:21, Matt Turner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:26 AM Marek Szuba <mare...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> What do you think, guys? > I don't love it. > > I don't like the mess that has become VIDEO_CARDS=... either. radeon > vs radeonsi vs amdgpu. Different names for different bits of the > stack, even for the same hardware. I would like to come up with > something that avoids the confusion users often have. > > Does anyone have suggestions? > > Should we make a cpuid2cpuflags equivalent for VIDEO_CARDS? > > Should VIDEO_CARDS specify only the vendor with MESA_VIDEO_CARDS=... > etc for individual packages? (Seems gross) > > Should VIDEO_CARDS be more fine grained with multiple names for the > same thing sometimes? (e.g., offer VIDEO_CARDS=amdgpu for > media-libs/mesa that enables the radeonsi driver; similarly offer > VIDEO_CARDS=radeonsi for x11-libs/libdrm that enables libdrm_radeon). > > I think perhaps that in conjunction with a cpuid2cpuflags-equivalent > is the most sensible. >
