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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New USE_EXPAND: LLVM_TARGETS
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:39:50
Message-Id: 20160928083936.6594b3c3.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New USE_EXPAND: LLVM_TARGETS by Marek Szuba
1 On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:31:06 +0200
2 Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 2016-09-27 22:51, Raymond Jennings wrote:
5 >
6 > > Doesn't VIDEO_CARDS factor in on xorg-server's video driver
7 > > selection?
8 > It does. Which is why with the way things are now, and which Michał's
9 > proposal should improve, someone with an amdgpu-compatible card will
10 > still have xf86-video-ati lying around - VIDEO_CARDS=radeon will pull it in.
11
12 Also note there's VIDEO_CARDS=amdgpu for newer cards, to increase your
13 confusion. And the LLVM target is probably needed for
14 VIDEO_CARDS=radeonsi and newer, not by VIDEO_CARDS=radeon. Though it
15 may be needed for OpenCL.
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny
20 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New USE_EXPAND: LLVM_TARGETS Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>