AMD Driver Support State For Radeon HD 7000 Series, Trinity

[Qaridarium]

???
I said what the plan is. I didn't say if execution of the plan had started yet or not. Please don't call me a liar for something I didn't say.

read the word "if" i know you don't do this "stupid" claim.
he claim that by trying to quote you and trying to interpret your words.

In fact the execution of the plan had started month ago.

thats the real point!

As I said earlier nearly all of the work has been on the kernel drivers. This discussion is about the userspace Gallium3D drivers.

for me the kernel part is a part of this driver.

[bridgman]

read the word "if" i know you don't do this "stupid" claim. he claim that by trying to quote you and trying to interpret your words.

That was how I interpreted your post as well, but could you find another way to deliver that explanation ? Preferably one which does not involve even "conditionally" calling me a liar

As I said earlier nearly all of the work has been on the kernel drivers. This discussion is about the userspace Gallium3D drivers.

for me the kernel part is a part of this driver.

I don't know how to respond to this

[Qaridarium]

That was how I interpreted your post as well, but could you find another way to deliver that explanation ? Preferably one which does not involve even "conditionally" calling me a liar

Writing English is hard work for me. Write a valid conditionally sentence is even harder for me. I do not have the skill to write in your Public Relations fashion way.

Sorry if i conditionally hurt you.

I don't know how to respond to this

For me as a consumer there is no difference between different parts of the radeon driver in mesa and kernel because all parts must be completed.

And in fact compared to an hd2900 amd start 5 year earlier.

also the on next fusion apu is build with the new architecture.

and i'm sure the Opteron in 2013 will be this kind of APU.

[bridgman]

Writing English is hard work for me. Write a valid conditionally sentence is even harder for me. I do not have the skill to write in your Public Relations fashion way. Sorry if i conditionally hurt you.

I try to write more "simply", ie if I disagree with something I say that and nothing more. Your English is probably as good as mine these days -- but if I tried to write as colourfully as you do I would probably have trouble too

For me as a consumer there is no difference between different parts of the radeon driver in mesa and kernel because all parts must be completed.

Agreed, but you were disagreeing with someone who said that work on the *mesa* driver might not have started.

And in fact compared to an hd2900 amd start 5 year earlier.

It's more like a couple of years, isn't it ? The HD2900 came out in mid-2007 and by mid-2008 we had started working on r6xx acceleration. I agree that it is a really important change though... starting before launch rather than 12-18 months after launch makes a *big* difference.

[Qaridarium]

I try to write more "simply", ie if I disagree with something I say that and nothing more. Your English is probably as good as mine these days -- but if I tried to write as colourfully as you do I would probably have trouble too

really? thank you. however the biggest different is i can't do this without help wikipedia/google/translator/spell checking in fact i use my computer as a brain prosthesis.

"colourfully" In Anbetracht der Tatsache dass mein Deutsch um ein vielfaches facettenreicher und komplexer ist, so erscheint es für mich traurig zu beobachten wie stümperhaft ich mich im englischem Sprachraum auszudrücken vermag, was dazu führt das dies der deinige Einwurf bezüglich des farbenfrohen Schreibens wie eine surrealistische Parodie auf mich wirkt in der es wohl kein platz für eine würdevolle selbst Reflexion gibt ohne vor Scham in den Boden zu versinken. (yes this is one single sentence in german)

Agreed, but you were disagreeing with someone who said that work on the *mesa* driver might not have started.

however all modern future graphic architectures are ray-tracing based over openCL this means mesa doesn't matter.

It's more like a couple of years, isn't it ? The HD2900 came out in mid-2007 and by mid-2008 we had started working on r6xx acceleration.

we talk about the architecture not the graphic cards.
wikipedia claims other facts than you:

german wikipedia translatet with google translate: "The architecture of the R600 graphics processors and their derivatives, which are used in the Radeon HD 2000-series are used, although it was never used in graphics cards for PCs, not entirely new. It is based in principle on the architecture of the Xenos GPU of the Xbox 360, which carried the codename R400."
about xbox360: "At the Game Developers Conference in March 2005 the unit was first introduced to the broad audience. [2] The official presentation took place on the 12th of the console May 2005 on the American television channel MTV, including the band The Killers instead. [3]"

also the radeonHD was a failure this means you should calculate with the radeon instead.

this means the architecture come out 2005 and you start the radeon driver in 2009-20010.

also the driver work for the Xenos GPU was done in 2004!!!!!

this means if you calculate the worst case its 5 years!

I agree that it is a really important change though... starting before launch rather than 12-18 months after launch makes a *big* difference.

yes you are right.

But please calculate again with the Xenos-GPU as the first gpu on the hd2000 architecture. and the driver work for the xenos back in 2004

In fact the new next gen GPU architecture will get 5 years more love.

[duby229]

I'm pretty sure xenos is something much closer to x800.... I could be wrong, but it definitely does not have a unified shader architecture. It definitely has pixel shaders, and I'm almost positive it has vertex shaders too.

EDIT: Well, I looked into it, and I guesss it does use a unified shader architecture. So I was wrong.

[Qaridarium]

I'm pretty sure xenos is something much closer to x800.... I could be wrong, but it definitely does not have a unified shader architecture. It definitely has pixel shaders, and I'm almost positive it has vertex shaders too.

EDIT: Well, I looked into it, and I guesss it does use a unified shader architecture. So I was wrong.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL nice try and funny to read

in fact i beat bridgman in this rhetorical battle !!!
the hd2000 architecture is the Xenos-GPU architecture.
this means there is more than 5 years different between starting the architecture and starting the opensource driver.

the next gen architecture coming in 1 month is the same new as the XENOS-GPU architecture was back in 2004.

this means 5 years earlier start in the opensource driver.

i like to push Bridgman

[Qaridarium]

opensource friendly hd7970 is coming.

[Qaridarium]

Its funny Bridgman stop writing instantly every time i make a good point.



my analysis:
the lifetime of the (Xenos/R600) architecture was from 2005-2011
and the development time was from 2004-2011 (in my point of view 2003)
the Dev time overall = 7 years.

claimed open source dev time 2008-2011 (in my point of view the radeonHD failure and the galium3D rewrite eat 1 year)

this means the new architecture are from 2012-2018 (dev time 2011-2018)
No RadeonHD delay and no galium3D rewrite PLUS some parts from the r600g driver is used. this save 1 year.
this means in real 8 years of dev time with twice as great team.

instead of the r600 2 years (3years) of dev time with the half as great team.

this means the next gen hardware driver will do have a 8 time bigger impact.

and I'm sure they will increase the dev team to focus on openCL for the Opteron customers. .

[bridgman]

Its funny Bridgman stop writing instantly every time i make a good point.

It's too hard to type and facepalm at the same time

Seriously, if you're talking about the *last* GPU/APU in the GCN family I guess I sort of agree with your numbers, although you are ignoring the contributions of non-AMD developers which IMO invalidates the numbers completely.

I was talking about the *first* chip in the GCN family not the *last* chip and there the difference is smaller, although still significant.

RadeonHD and radeon always shared the kernel and 3D drivers, so I wouldn't take time off for that, but I agree that we don't need to go through the classic=>Gallium3D transition again so that does save some time.

This is all academic until I see triangles though...

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