From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev+bounces-79360-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 836F6139085 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0904B2241A9; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blaine.gmane.org (unknown [195.159.176.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A644E22419F for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from <lnx-gentoo-dev@m.gmane.org>) id 1cXJod-0002M8-NS for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 04:36:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> 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) Message-ID: <pan$c54ea$5672c155$5a97726$1627265f@cox.net> References: <20170127021612.GA3628@macbook> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.142 (He slipped to Sam a double gin; 6072d9a47) X-Archives-Salt: 1099495f-e09f-4a97-bd33-cc23a4a5c608 X-Archives-Hash: fd6cb7bc76d8b0ec110867cae3e303f6 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