Hello, I want to select some hardware for OpenBSD. I lurked many sites with hardware specifications and drivers, but I am not sure about some support for hardware.
What Am I Trying to Achieve? I want to buy some AMD APU hardware, that means CPU and GPU together. There is a point in time where AMD changed the GPU architecture from so called TeraScale/VILW to GCN. In OpenBSD, TeraScale/VILW parts are supported by radeon driver, next is supported but not so ready amdgpu one. I really need hardware acceleration in X.org. What I Did already? I checked AMD APU parts for the integrated GPU, and found that some parts have TeraScale/VILW GPU, some have GCN. The GPU is coded like 7xxxD, 8xxxD, ... This xxxxD is not listed in radeon man page as supported. There is a big mess up with chipset names taken from all kind of islands and vulcans. There is no sense to use them, since it is not easy to track them. Let's hope there will be no day when AMD will use human body parts to identify graphic chipsets. What To Do Next? So, all this on the table, is it ok just to buy some APU with GPU in TeraScale*/VILW* architecture? As an example, there are parts like this (APU / GPU) supported? A10-5700 / HD7750G A10-6700 / HD8670D A8-6500 / HD8670D Thank you.
