AMD & 13.0 Current

From: Clay Daniels Jr. <clay.daniels.jr_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 17:29:36 -0500
I have built me a new computer, put it together, and being impatient did
not even partition the 2TB WD HD, but just installed last weeks Current.
Worked great!
Now that I have these two to compare I will share the details and results,
particularly if you are using AMD CPR/Radeon Graphics.

The older:
Per Windows:
HP Pavilion23 All-in-one PC
Manufactured & bought 2014
AMD E2-3800 APU with Radeon Graphics
1.30GHz CPU - 4.00 GB RAM
Per either Linux or FreeBSD13:
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series]vendor:Hewlett-Packard
driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 4.19.0-5-amd64 LLVM 7.0.0)
v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.6 direct render: Yes

The newer:
R7_BSD-13
clay_at_r7bsd:~ $ uname -a
FreeBSD r7bsd 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r352265 GENERIC  amd64
clay_at_r7bsd:~ $ gpart show -p
=>        34  3907029101    ada0  GPT  (1.8T)
          34        2014          - free -  (1.0M)
        2048     1083392  ada0p1  ms-recovery  (529M)
     1085440      204800  ada0p2  efi  (100M)
     1290240       32768  ada0p3  ms-reserved  (16M)
     1323008  1072420864  ada0p4  ms-basic-data  (511G)
  1073743872      532480  ada0p5  efi  (260M)
  1074276352  2824331256  ada0p6  freebsd-ufs  (1.3T)
  3898607608     8388608  ada0p7  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
  3906996216       32919          - free -  (16M)
Hardware:
AMD Ryzen7 3700X CPU
MSI MSI X570-A PRO Motherboard
MSI Radeon RX 570 Video Card
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB SDRAM DDR4 3200 Memory

The good thing is they both use the same drm-kmod "amdgpu".
So I can see that a 2014 or later computer will probably use the same, and
not the legacy "radeonkms" in /etc/rc.conf.

The other thing to note, is that for 13.0 Current they both need a line in
/boot/loader.conf:
hw.syscons..disable=1

That's basically my report. I am enjoying my new machine.
Clay
Received on Sun Sep 15 2019 - 20:29:49 UTC

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