I have stopped estimating dates since we missed the last two estimates as we learned more about the new 3D engine. What I can say is that we have the 6xx and 7xx chips drawing things in house with our code (a demo program running over drm), that we have pretty much all of the required functions working, and now need to : (a) implement those functions in the 2d and 3d drivers, and (b) finish the IP review for just the information needed to make that code work I don't really want to even speculate re: dates but we're fairly close now. -----Original Message----- From: Norbert Toth [mailto:norbeet@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 2:57 PM To: Bridgman, John Cc: Ilyes Gouta; Nikos Chantziaras; radeonhd@opensuse.org Subject: RE: [radeonhd] Re: ATI Radeon HD 3650 fan noise on Linux Hello John, I fully agree with you. Is there any approximate ETA for the 6xx 2d/3d acceleration? Thanks. - Norbert On Po, 2008-10-27 at 14:36 -0400, Bridgman, John wrote:
You can put pressure on us to do power management as a higher priority
than 2d/3d acceleration for the newer chips, but I don't think that is
the best way to go. Right now power management is next in line after 6xx/7xx 3D engine support.
-----Original Message----- From: Ilyes Gouta [mailto:ilyes.gouta@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 10:37 AM To: Nikos Chantziaras Cc: radeonhd@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [radeonhd] Re: ATI Radeon HD 3650 fan noise on Linux
Hi,
So to preserve my Radeon HD 3650, I have two options:
1. Re-flash the radeon BIOS with a more adequate PowerPlay table, which would contain a much lower frequencies for the memory and GPU. 2. Wait for the proper PowerPlay support in radeonhd.
Right?
I think power management is MANDATORY for graphics chips meant to be embedded into laptops. Any way to put the pressure on AMD/ATI to open up the documentation for such a feature?
Regards, Ilyes Gouta.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
wrote: Ilyes Gouta wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to retrieve the GPU temp? Is there any embedded sensor
that can be read out?
Nope. Maybe the Linux Catalyst drivers do this though.
You should be worried about the shorter lifetime of the card due to
high temps.
Yeah, but we're not using any 2D/3D functionality/acceleration under Linux, so the GPU shouldn't be that hot, is it?
It is hot. GPUs don't seem to have "idle calls" like CPUs. They run hot all the time unless you reduce the clocks (Catalyst does this). The fan would stay silent if it wasn't hot (it's BIOS controlled).
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