2013-04-04, 08:30
@pvautrin:
I am not so much into the vdpau part, but from what i see - there is no GL Interop in mesa, which is the problem here, cause default vdpau makes use of it. But I think, that fernetmenta could have an idea on howto make it work - let's wait until someone has set up a PPA for 3.9 kernel with the patches + the relevant mesa packages including the vdpau r600 shared objects. Building all that from source is currently a bit heavy - and providing a howto for it will end in an nightmare.
Yes, you have read everything correctly - it was me - I just could not believe it, after only reading the headline - I thought of a April 1st joke until I read the code, sorry for this.
There was in deed code added to the opensource radeon driver, that could be that start for HD Audio
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.ph...post300317 . Also suspend to RAM should be a whole lot better. Including newest xorg support, kernel support whenever needed.
One problem I currently see is, that the Powermanagement is not yet ready and therefore the cards are driven at lower frequencies than with the fglrx driver, cause the thermal management is missing yet.
Bridgeman even thinks, that OSS radeon will be faster than UVD in the closed driver: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.ph...post323673 - i am curious on the first qvdpautests.
I am not so much into the vdpau part, but from what i see - there is no GL Interop in mesa, which is the problem here, cause default vdpau makes use of it. But I think, that fernetmenta could have an idea on howto make it work - let's wait until someone has set up a PPA for 3.9 kernel with the patches + the relevant mesa packages including the vdpau r600 shared objects. Building all that from source is currently a bit heavy - and providing a howto for it will end in an nightmare.
Yes, you have read everything correctly - it was me - I just could not believe it, after only reading the headline - I thought of a April 1st joke until I read the code, sorry for this.
(2013-04-04, 00:08)nickr Wrote: The phoronix article doesn't mention audio at all, so I guess that remains to be seen.
The cards concerned all have video acceleration available through fglrx don't they? I am a great open source fan and proponent, but I don't see that this will necessarily add anything to the end user experience that you don't get with fglrx/xvba. Might make things easier for devs though. When vdpau was released by nvidia it was only a matter of days before open source projects like mythtv had initial support going.
But if it provided HD audio to linux amd drivers, that would be a huge bonus for the htpc community.
There was in deed code added to the opensource radeon driver, that could be that start for HD Audio
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.ph...post300317 . Also suspend to RAM should be a whole lot better. Including newest xorg support, kernel support whenever needed.
One problem I currently see is, that the Powermanagement is not yet ready and therefore the cards are driven at lower frequencies than with the fglrx driver, cause the thermal management is missing yet.
Bridgeman even thinks, that OSS radeon will be faster than UVD in the closed driver: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.ph...post323673 - i am curious on the first qvdpautests.