So after re-reading man pages and a quick consultation of some Wikipedia pages, kernel support for most Radeon cards upto those in the Northern Islands family are supported. That ties in nicely with what you've outlined as thats the family that came before they made the change to the GCN Microarchitecture and Instruction set.
Hopefully it's something that will be supported in the not too distant future.Until then, it's back in my box. Thanks all. On 19 November 2017 at 01:34, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote: > The userland driver that page describes won't work without kernel support. > > For GCN parts like OLAND it is worse as they require Mesa to be built > against LLVM libraries for 2D acceleration. And LLVM libraries/llvm-config > etc are not built/shipped in base. > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 01:16:19AM +0000, Timothy Legge wrote: > > I copy/pasted "OLAND Radeon HD 8000 series" from the radeon(4) > > <https://man.openbsd.org/radeon> man page under the section header > > "Supported Hardware". Maybe I'm missing something. > > > > On 19 November 2017 at 01:08, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 07:43:03PM +0000, Timothy Legge wrote: > > > > @Maurice, Don't worry about teaching me to suck eggs, I'd rather > cover > > > all > > > > the bases :) > > > > > > > > I've run "fw_update -a" to ensure that the drivers are installed and > > > where > > > > they need to be. (Bit overkill I know, but I'd rather be sure at this > > > > point.) > > > > As for support from the Radeon driver as linked above, it falls > under the > > > > "OLAND Radeon HD 8000 series". > > > > > > The radeon code in the kernel is derived from Linux 3.8, support for > > > the OLAND family wasn't added till 3.9. > > > > > > > It's almost as though the kernel forgets to add "radeondrm0 at vga1" > and > > > > "drm0 at radeondrm0" as seen on other dmesg from systems with Radeon > > > cards. > > > > I can't help shake the sense that the fix to this is going to be > > > something > > > > rather simple, and I'm just too stupid to figure it out! :) > > > > > > > > On 18 November 2017 at 19:14, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I assume the radeon firmware is in /etc/firmware. If not download > > > > > http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/6.2/radeondrm- > > > firmware-20150927.tgz > > > > > and untar it in that directory. (Sorry if I'm teaching granny to > suck > > > > > eggs.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_ > > > > > source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > > > > > Virus-free. > > > > > www.avast.com > > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_ > > > > > source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > > > > > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > > > > > > > >
