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[bridgman]

Is this a new issue ? We have always (at least for several years) published packaged drivers with amdgpu bundled up for DKMS installation on a variety...

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Yeah... when I got started in this business I thought code names were cool...

... now I wish people would name things thing.1, thing.2, thing.3...

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in both forum post and article.

My first thought reading it was "144 acres... damn that's a big chip"....

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El Capitan - aiming for >2x Frontier performance....

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If it helps, remember that driver component projects are named for the *first* generation of hardware they support. The rationale is that when a component...

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IIRC it's a statically allocated table (occupies memory even if only a small portion is used, ie you don't want to make it any bigger than needed) and...

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I was looking at the previous section:



The interesting part is the second and third sentences, which seem to say that unless...

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Looking at the CDDL text, it might be possible for "the license steward" (originally Sun, presumably now Oracle) to update the CDDL terms (ie...

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A lot of the developers (copyright holders) of that code probably do not work for Oracle and may not be enthusiastic about agreeing to relicense....

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Only faster than a CPU from the same time period. I suspect a relatively inexpensive modern CPU would outperform a Terascale GPU eg HD5850 or Barts/Cayman...

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Nice to see the different product positionings (lower power vs higher performance).

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Yep... added a couple of tweaks for completeness. It's possible that all of the video code is in a common section shared between r300, r600 and radeonsi....