Among my favourite moments:
0. Spoke on a Linux day with some AMD representative and we talked about Laptops and how few there are and oh, well, ATI GPUs didn't fare so well with Linux. He had one there with an AMD ATI combo and smiled and told me something like "just you wait and see..."
1. Specs release / freedom driver announced / radeonHD! OMFG! Heart attack!
2. Introduction of power management (finally my HD3870 passive was actually able to be passively cooled, it was a 110 W TDP monster...)
3. The first time my four cuddly penguins would show up in KMS mode.
4. switch to HD5670 and it worked like a charm (til today)
5. somewhere here was some game (can't remember which) that I bought via HIB and it would not work (command stream error) - a week later a new kernel came and it would just work. You could literally see and follow the development
6. E-350 works nicely (I guess that was my first APU)
7. gifted myself a Kabini Athlon 5350 (AM1) and it worked out of the box
X. Each time I look at the RadeonFeature it becomes greener.
Things I am still waiting for:
* Geode driver improvements (yes, I do have a Geode LX). (I know it is a different driver but still somewhat related.)
* A few bugfixes here and there (could also be related to something else in KDE or Qt).
* HW video accel. I am not sure if it really works all the time. Had a few system freezes in the past when I tried things via VLC -> VDPAU -> driver/UVD -> somewhere it froze the whole system (sometimes even REISUB was dead)
* Hybrid GPU stuff (e.g. APU and card)
* Anything related to real world use of OpenCL and HSA would be fancy.
* R100 improvements (I am happy that I finally found a Transmeta for my collection that comes with a usable GPU at all, before it was all XGI and such)
* Support for future APIs (Vulcan and stuff, you know)
* The moment AMD announces that the fglrx is dead and all people with be working on the freedom driver.
* Notebooks with AMD APUs. Just someone make a decent model with a decent screen and a decent keyboard. Not this 2h runtime, 1366x786 glare screen mess and with strange keyboards (layouts) that are meant for hands of an alien maybe...
* The next mainboard generation that works with Carrizo - I guess that is my next main box to be. If it takes too long I might still settle with a Kaveri >= A8 7600. For that I'd love to have some hybrid thingy with a dedicated GPU card.
0. Spoke on a Linux day with some AMD representative and we talked about Laptops and how few there are and oh, well, ATI GPUs didn't fare so well with Linux. He had one there with an AMD ATI combo and smiled and told me something like "just you wait and see..."
1. Specs release / freedom driver announced / radeonHD! OMFG! Heart attack!
2. Introduction of power management (finally my HD3870 passive was actually able to be passively cooled, it was a 110 W TDP monster...)
3. The first time my four cuddly penguins would show up in KMS mode.
4. switch to HD5670 and it worked like a charm (til today)
5. somewhere here was some game (can't remember which) that I bought via HIB and it would not work (command stream error) - a week later a new kernel came and it would just work. You could literally see and follow the development
6. E-350 works nicely (I guess that was my first APU)
7. gifted myself a Kabini Athlon 5350 (AM1) and it worked out of the box
X. Each time I look at the RadeonFeature it becomes greener.
Things I am still waiting for:
* Geode driver improvements (yes, I do have a Geode LX). (I know it is a different driver but still somewhat related.)
* A few bugfixes here and there (could also be related to something else in KDE or Qt).
* HW video accel. I am not sure if it really works all the time. Had a few system freezes in the past when I tried things via VLC -> VDPAU -> driver/UVD -> somewhere it froze the whole system (sometimes even REISUB was dead)
* Hybrid GPU stuff (e.g. APU and card)
* Anything related to real world use of OpenCL and HSA would be fancy.
* R100 improvements (I am happy that I finally found a Transmeta for my collection that comes with a usable GPU at all, before it was all XGI and such)
* Support for future APIs (Vulcan and stuff, you know)
* The moment AMD announces that the fglrx is dead and all people with be working on the freedom driver.
* Notebooks with AMD APUs. Just someone make a decent model with a decent screen and a decent keyboard. Not this 2h runtime, 1366x786 glare screen mess and with strange keyboards (layouts) that are meant for hands of an alien maybe...
* The next mainboard generation that works with Carrizo - I guess that is my next main box to be. If it takes too long I might still settle with a Kaveri >= A8 7600. For that I'd love to have some hybrid thingy with a dedicated GPU card.
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