From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: x11-drivers/ati-drivers, x11-libs/amd-adl-sdk, x11-libs/xvba-video
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:36:26 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$c54ea$5672c155$5a97726$1627265f@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170127021612.GA3628@macbook
Matt Turner posted on Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:16:12 -0800 as excerpted:
> # Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (26 Jan 2017)
> # Dead and replaced by media-libs/mesa[video_cards_radeonsi]
> # (or the proprietary amdgpu-pro, which is not in tree).
> # Masked for removal in 30 days.
> # Bug #582406
> x11-drivers/ati-drivers
> x11-libs/amd-adl-sdk
> x11-libs/xvba-video
What about folks running pre-si radeons? Radeon southern-island
generation isn't that old, you know.
Even if anything older is abandoned by the proprietary drivers (I
wouldn't know as I won't do proprietary drivers), people may still be
running older versions, with older kernels if required, and media-libs/
mesa with radeonsi isn't the correct migration path for them.
FWIW I was running Turks (northern-islands, pre-southern) until a few
weeks ago when I upgraded to a 4k TV as a primary display and decided to
upgrade the graphics to better handle it while I was at it.
(Tho for anyone thinking about it, the rx460, aka polaris11, I purchased,
ended up being a poor choice as despite the hardware apparently
supporting 3840x2160@60Hz, the freedomware drivers at least, apparently
don't yet, so at that resolution I'm stuck at the same 30Hz that I
believe I would have been stuck with on the older Turks card, which works
better otherwise as the drivers for it have had longer to mature.)
--
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-27 2:16 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-drivers/ati-drivers, x11-libs/amd-adl-sdk, x11-libs/xvba-video Matt Turner
2017-01-28 3:36 ` Duncan [this message]
2017-01-28 4:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Matt Turner
2017-01-28 9:44 ` James Le Cuirot
2017-01-28 9:49 ` James Le Cuirot
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