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  • #21
    Originally posted by eydee View Post
    I was hoping for this. Please share a photo and make a facebook event about it.
    vblank_mode=3 == crying, TearFree == no crying

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    • #22
      Hopefully this time next year AMD hires another half dozen developers for Gallium to make it great for the Steam Machines release, where Gallium supports OpenMAX, VDPAU, VAAPI, DirectX9, and OpeGL 4.2 or 4.3 and GLES 3.1 completely with another 50% performance improvement on radeonsi. And maybe Intel finally hops on board, depreciates SNA and moves their driver to Gallium as well!

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      • #23
        Originally posted by eydee View Post
        Another reason to move almost all cards to legacy state. Just wait for it, it will come and be even worse than fglrx. Then you will cry...
        Nonsense, moving away from FGLRX and more users onto the open source stack is a good thing.

        Eventually, AMD needs to deprecate the whole closed source stack altogether.(years down the road from now, when it is ready)

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        • #24
          Originally posted by phoronix View Post
          Phoronix: AMD's Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver: 2014 Was Incredible

          With this week having delivered our 2014 Catalyst Linux Graphics Benchmarks Year-In-Review that looked at the evolution of the AMD Catalyst Linux driver performance over this year, now it's time to see how the open-source Radeon driver performance has evolved.

          http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21274

          Good tests but they can improve. You tested two GCN-1.0 GPUs, you should test with 260 or 290 instead of 270.

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          • #25
            Originally posted by artivision View Post
            Good tests but they can improve. You tested two GCN-1.0 GPUs, you should test with 260 or 290 instead of 270.
            Already explained in article that the R9 290 wasn't tested since it's open-source driver support wasn't there in Ubuntu 13.10.... And don't have a 260 besides a R7 270X now permanently in an LinuxBenchmarking.com system.
            Michael Larabel
            https://www.michaellarabel.com/

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            • #26
              Very impressive stuff.

              Kudos to all involved!

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              • #27
                Originally posted by Michael View Post
                Already explained in article that the R9 290 wasn't tested since it's open-source driver support wasn't there in Ubuntu 13.10.... And don't have a 260 besides a R7 270X now permanently in an LinuxBenchmarking.com system.
                AFAIK you got R7 260X also Wikipedia says HD7850 and R7 270 are almost identical Pitcairn variants.

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                • #28
                  Originally posted by halfmanhalfamazing View Post
                  Nonsense, moving away from FGLRX and more users onto the open source stack is a good thing.

                  Eventually, AMD needs to deprecate the whole closed source stack altogether.(years down the road from now, when it is ready)
                  No. Current generation cards can do anything that is currently required from a video card. The only reason to deprecate them is to force people to upgrade. AMD has been playing this game for very long, even nvidia started to copycat it. If AMD came out and said fglrx will be deprecated, but amdgpu will support all non-legacy cards instead, I'd be happy. However, not even the current latest GPU will be supported. How is this fair?

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                  • #29
                    Honestly I don't think full scale hardware support on launch day will ever be feasible with OSS drivers. At least not on linux...

                    They would have to release drivers months before launch day, and coordinate launch day itself with several major distributions. And even then hardware support would only be available on the newest distros with the newest drivers. I feel comfortable saying that AMD will never do that.

                    EDIT: The linux kernel really needs a stable hardware (driver) interface.... Thats really the only way to make launch day support possible.
                    Last edited by duby229; 27 December 2014, 09:32 PM.

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                    • #30
                      EDIT: Without full scale launch day support the OSS drivers can't replace catalyst. I don't think catalyst is going anywhere anytime soon. Linux itself would have to be significantly changed.

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