Originally posted by drSeehas
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Ironically, the decision a while back to support GCN 1.0 cards on amdgpu was one of the many reasons that I eventually (yet again) chose AMD for my next upgrade (R9 Fury). Even so, I'm still very exited to hear that support is coming along nicely. Two thumbs up!
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Originally posted by dh04000 View Post
I was talking about the closed AMD driver dropping support and whether the AMD made AMDPRO would do so also. Maintenance is expensive, and AMD has dropped support in the past.
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Again, why no edit button?
IE: My 2006 to 2009 horror story is bound to happen again (if patterns follow), unless mesa forks AMDPRO to continue support AFTER amd drops support in a few years.
Make me sad that I have to hand feed you people, and that I can't expect you to make a simple connection on your own.
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Originally posted by Mystro256 View Post
amdgpu will be supporting all the GCN cards once it's finished (around late 2011 to present). Then I can assume they will be dropping official support of the previous cards (i.e. r600 and similar), if they haven't done so already. GCN will likely be supported until the successor comes out and a new driver emerges.
i.e. from AMD's development team, not just the community.
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Originally posted by dh04000 View PostAgain, why no edit button?
IE: My 2006 to 2009 horror story is bound to happen again (if patterns follow), unless mesa forks AMDPRO to continue support AFTER amd drops support in a few years.
Make me sad that I have to hand feed you people, and that I can't expect you to make a simple connection on your own.
I.e. Mesa = amdgpu + radeonsi, AMDGPU-PRO = amdgpu + fglrx
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Originally posted by drSeehas View PostAMDGPU is open source.
FGLRX was closed source.
So AMDGPU != FGLRX.
Sorry, you made it on my ignore list.
AMDGPU-PRO is more like amdgpu+ FGLRX based on what I've read, hense why it's call the "hybrid driver", hybrid of the amdgpu opensource module and the old closed source userspace.
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