RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Can Now Handle Gears

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Can Now Handle Gears

It turns out that minutes after writing AMD Open-Source S.I. Botched, Hope For The Future, a number of "RadeonSI" Gallium3D driver commits landed in mainline Mesa...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE1MDE

[Veerappan]

Thanks Christian. I don't have any SI hardware yet (6850 is my best for now), but I have high hopes for the future of these chips and their non-VLIW architecture.

[bridgman]

The other big issue was a couple of instructions that weren't being handled properly in the new shader compiler, which Tom fixed late last week :

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...ec5c03cdfcd163

[agd5f]

Most of the infrastructure is already in place and has been for a while now for a relatively complete 3D driver. At this point it's mostly just a matter of narrowing down the failures and fixing bugs.

[bridgman]

At this point it's mostly just a matter of narrowing down the failures and fixing bugs.

... and *that* gets a lot easier when you can actually see stuff on the screen

[lordheavy]

We can say now that radeonsi has hit the 'glxgears Milestone' !

[entropy]

Great work!

Btw, did I got it right that with GCN the shader compiler is easier (not easy!)
to optimize compared to previous architectures?

[Nille]

Im very happy for all S.I. owner. But was not Christian König working on Video Acceleration and try to implement UVD? Is this work now dead?

[jrch2k8]

awesome i think i will reactivate my 7770 buy for september [i canceled the purchase 1 month ago cuz i can't simply tolerate using fglrx ever again] but now glamor and glxgears is the time

[jrch2k8]

Im very happy for all S.I. owner. But was not Christian König working on Video Acceleration and try to implement UVD? Is this work now dead?

not UVD[this is drm mined and is very very unlike to be worked on] but video decode on shaders