will xf86-video-amdgpu is capable to drive AMD readeon Pro wx2100

[Alex Deucher]

All drivers for recent hardware require a proper kernel driver.  There
have not been user mode X drivers for new AMD hardware released in the
last 7-8 years.

Alex

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:02 AM Harinath Reddy <harinath428 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hope it is different from xorg-video-radeon/hd  driver which is not require any kernel component to drive the FireMV2250 card, except card initialization( ATOMBIOS run from the HP-UX kernel on behalf of the xf86 request ).
>
> If it is tightly coupled with amdgpu  kernel module, and it is again depend on the linux kernel drm module. HP-UX is not using the drm facilities as i am aware , so is that possible to port to hp-ux.
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Harinath
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:37 PM Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Am 12.03.19 um 09:35 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
>> > On 2019-03-12 4:14 a.m., Harinath Reddy wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Present we are using the radeon HD driver from xorg to driver AMDFirMV2250
>> >> card. We would like to replace AMD FireMV2250 with AMD Radeon Pro Wx2100
>> >> card.
>> >>
>> >> I saw xf86-video-amdgpu xorg driver is available, but we are not sure
>> >> whether that would be sufficient or not, if not what else require to  use
>> >> that card.  If you can help that  would be great
>> >> I am naive to the graphics world .
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We are using HP_UX operating system, Xserver (Xfree86) is  as a  graphics
>> >> server.
>> > xf86-video-amdgpu requires the amdgpu kernel driver. Assuming the latter
>> > is working with your card, the former will work (as well as the generic
>> > modesetting Xorg driver).
>>
>> To answer the original question a bit more direct: The amdgpu kernel
>> driver is NOT available for HP_UX.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christian.
>
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