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2013-09-27, 16:13
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-02, 12:30 by Robotica.)
(2013-07-31, 16:14)Robotica Wrote: (2013-07-31, 15:56)LasseKongo Wrote: Sounds promising, a passive Kabini board with Linux HD decode support would definitely be my next HTPC. Getting rid of the crap fglrx drivers at the same time would be a bonus. Looks like AMD and others are doing a lot of work with the open driver, I think it was well over 100 separate patches going in to kernel 3.10.
Not to mention all power management related patches in kernel 3.11, also lesser CPU usage on audio decode, new oss Radeon employee, Marek Olšák, complete updated oss dev tools, opening uvd (possible vdpau), openGL4.3 drivers, their new console customers.
This time, it's easy to see that AMD is really committed in bringing their infrastructure to a level to execute their strategy (run as much as possible on the GPU and let a few ARM/x86 CPU's be an assistant of this GPU: Lego SoC with GPU as a its' main part) and xbmc users will benefit.
The fglrx drivers never were crap for normal end-users: video playback is great.
What a big problem was/is with fglrx / xvba, are those breakages with every new driver: Kernel, X.org, MESA, OpenGL, you could directly see your setup breaking. So frustrating for devs and people compiling straight from GIT.
Now with all the positive reports about using OSS Radeon & VDPAU stuff, it's almost time for a true OSS HTPC.
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2013-10-02, 11:51
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-02, 12:31 by Robotica.)
(2013-07-31, 16:14)Robotica Wrote: (2013-07-31, 15:56)LasseKongo Wrote: Sounds promising, a passive Kabini board with Linux HD decode support would definitely be my next HTPC. Getting rid of the crap fglrx drivers at the same time would be a bonus. Looks like AMD and others are doing a lot of work with the open driver, I think it was well over 100 separate patches going in to kernel 3.10.
Not to mention all power management related patches in kernel 3.11, also lesser CPU usage on audio decode, new oss Radeon employee, Marek Olšák, complete updated oss dev tools, opening uvd (possible vdpau), openGL4.3 drivers, their new console customers.
This time, it's easy to see that AMD is really committed in bringing their infrastructure to a level to execute their strategy (run as much as possible on the GPU and let a few ARM/x86 CPU's be an assistant of this GPU: Lego SoC with GPU as a its' main part) and xbmc users will benefit.
All those developments have let to a PR with VDPAU support for XBMC. This means all AMD driver limitations are gone and AMD will give you a pure OSS HTPC.
With Mantle also coming, expect more direct hardware access, bypassing VDPAU/OpenGL for certain stuff: even faster.
This compensates all delays Kabini has...
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They start coming:Acer Aspire XC105 AMD E1-2500 /2100
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2013-10-13, 18:43
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-13, 19:08 by Robotica.)
And also mini ITX boards by gigabyte GA-F2A88XN-WIFI (no kabini support yet; probably bios update that gives that) and Asus FM2A88X-ITX.
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Let's see how this plays out.
This all is fm2+ socket and then you have the BGA packaged G series and also the lower end E series which seem to have FS1B socket.