ETA on Evergreen support from Radeon?

[Vash63]

Just wondering, I'm considering buying one soon to replace my R700 (want to get rid of Crossfire without losing performance in Windows) and would like to avoid fglrx if possible.

[agd5f]

Hopefully shouldn't take too long once I get the hardware. Modesetting should be pretty quick. Accel may take a bit longer.

[Vash63]

Is that days, weeks, months? Accel isn't essential for my Linux install but I'd obviously need modesetting.

[panda84]

Originally Posted by agd5f

Hopefully shouldn't take too long once I get the hardware. Modesetting should be pretty quick. Accel may take a bit longer.

Any news?

Diego

[bridgman]

VGA modesetting is working, but digital outputs aren't working yet. Don't know if it's worth pushing the current code, thoughts ?

[droidhacker]

Originally Posted by bridgman

VGA modesetting is working, but digital outputs aren't working yet. Don't know if it's worth pushing the current code, thoughts ?

That's a tough one. VGA's better than nothing, but how many people who use digital-only will just assume that it's broken? Mind you, right now it doesn't work at all.... I say push it. Most people would probably rather *temporarily* having to use an analog cable than have it not work at all.

[pingufunkybeat]

Thanks for the update.

I was planning to buy a more powerful card once the OSS driver support improves for the r7xx generation, and now I'm considering going directly to r8xx. I'm hoping that the porting will be relatively straight-forward.

[panda84]

Originally Posted by bridgman

VGA modesetting is working, but digital outputs aren't working yet. Don't know if it's worth pushing the current code, thoughts ?

Pushing doesn't hurt, so push it!

[rohcQaH]

it would have been cool if 57xx modesetting had been commited two days ago - just barely beating fglrx

Actually, the amount of people buying a top-notch GPU and connecting it to an old VGA monitor should be low. I don't think the additional work for cleanup and commit is justified yet. Do keep us informed though!

[Hoodlum]

Originally Posted by bridgman

VGA modesetting is working, but digital outputs aren't working yet. Don't know if it's worth pushing the current code, thoughts ?

Depends how far away the digital output support is.

Any chance of (even a very rough) timeframe on that?

- New 5770 owner