On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:29:45AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 02:17:03AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > 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. > > Am I understanding that using a newer, say Radeon HD 7750 or HD 7870 > card, with the modesetting(4) Xorg driver would work as long as there is > kernel support (which there is)? That would obviously not allow for > 2d/3d acceleration.
For cape verde, pitcairn and tahiti based designs with pci ids recognised by the kernel, yes. The marketing names don't encode the generation of the hardware and radeon product lines often reuse older generation designs rebadged.
