amdgpu for jessie-backports?

[Jérémy Viès]

Hi all,
I do backports llvm-3.8 and mesa-12.1 from testing/unstable/experimental
for my personnal machine and it goes quite straight forward.
The only things I did was to remove amd64 from the list of architecture on
which all llvm self tests pass.

My two cents.
Regards
Jérémy

2016-08-08 22:22 GMT+02:00 Andreas Boll <andreas.boll.dev at gmail.com>:

> (CCing pkg-llvm-team)
>
> 2016-08-06 18:05 GMT+02:00 Aron Xu <aron at debian.org>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wondering if there's anyone interested or working on amdgpu
> > support for jessie-backports? Since fglrx is no longer maintained,
> > when newer backports kernel is shipped (i.e. 4.6) it cannot build
> > anymore.
> >
> > I see that libdrm is backported with amdgpu support, but xorg is not
> > yet, is there a plan?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Aron
>
> There's no plan yet.
> A backport of xxv-amdgpu alone wouldn't be helpful, because it uses
> glamor for X acceleration and glamor uses OpenGL.
> Therefore we also need a backport of mesa with amdgpu support, but
> this is currently blocked by a too old version of LLVM.
>
> So the first step would be to backport a newer LLVM, preferably either
> LLVM 3.8 or the soon to be released LLVM 3.9 (currently only in
> experimental; required for OpenGL >= 4.2 on AMD's GCN cards).
> Then backport the current version of mesa w/ amdgpu support and
> finally backport xxv-amdgpu.
>
> If someone steps up to do the backport of LLVM I'd do the rest.
>
> Btw. which graphic card do you have?
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
>


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