Linux 2.6.32 To Get R600 KMS Along With 3D

[Maarte]

Will Fedora 12 (Constantine) be 2.6.31 or 2.6.32? There seem to be conflicting opinions across both official sites and this forum. Thankyou for any clarification offered.

[LiquidAcid]

UUID?

I'm just booting the kernel built from airlied's drm-next tree and once the login is available I modprobe radeon with the corresponding parameters. Is this the wrong approach?

[Kano]

Well you need it for booting from UUID. But when you don't have it then you can not recreate it of course.

[LiquidAcid]

@LiquidAcid

Did you run

update-initramfs -u

to get the new radeon module into the initrd?

I'm on gentoo linux and I have not init ramdisk.

[frische]

Better power management is next on our list once r6xx/r7xx 3D support stabilizes a bit more.

Great. At least for me, better power management is more important than 3d.

Any estimate when there will be a new release of the driver?

[nanonyme]

What you're seeing just indicates that there are no immediate plans to add KMS support to the radeonhd driver. Current thinking is that both radeon *and* radeonhd will eventually get replaced by a generic xorg driver running over KMS and Gallium3D.

And as I've commented several times earlier, I consider each new modesetting feature added to KMS one step further to making radeonhd unnecessary for anything since it won't (probably, since it would be real-life effort duplication) be getting KMS. :3 True, radeon will follow suit eventually but in the meantime until Gallium3D matures, we'll probably be moving from radeonhd to radeon...

[smitty3268]

Edit: Hmm, Bridgman explained this better than I - don't know how i missed his post as it looks older than mine...

[bridgman]

Because on the Gallium3D matrix the HDR600 (HD Radeon?) core is not scheduled to get KMS (N/N)

Ahh, now I understand. R700 (RHD) in that context refers to r7xx parts running with the radeonhd driver (aka xf86-video-radeonhd), while R700 refers to the same parts running with the radeon driver (aka xf86-video-ati).

What you're seeing just indicates that there are no immediate plans to add KMS support to the radeonhd driver. Current thinking is that both radeon *and* radeonhd will eventually get replaced by a generic xorg driver running over KMS and Gallium3D.

[agd5f]

Because on the Gallium3D matrix the HDR600 (HD Radeon?) core is not scheduled to get KMS (N/N)

Both r6xx and r7xx chips already have KMS support. KMS only works with the radeon driver.

[Kano]

@LiquidAcid

Did you run

update-initramfs -u

to get the new radeon module into the initrd?