Get yourself little more educated man and stop spreading wrong info. Xorg requires specific driver to get hardware acceleration. AMDGPU is required anyway so X can have 2d and 3d stuff working. It’s done same way on Linux.
Exactly, that is what I was referring to regardless.
Please indicate where exactly I was explicitly "Spreading wrong info" on this thread (not to mention that I'm the OP asking questions to begin with
) ?
Before rudely accusing people, it seems you're the one who needs some education my friend:
AMD RADEON GPU video driver
www.mankier.com
amdgpu is an Xorg driver for AMD RADEON-based video cards with the following features:
Support for 8-, 15-, 16-, 24- and 30-bit pixel depths;
RandR support up to version 1.4;
3D acceleration;
Since you seem to be more confused than me, you'll have a working DE without MESA if you install the GPU's proprietary drivers on Linux, (not sure if devs ported it to FreeBSD of the AMDGPU-PRO driver). MESA is not a GPU driver as you call it, it is used only at user space while MESA call's the AMDGPU kernel driver.
MESA is the open source implementation for the GPU's proprietary drivers.
For example MESA have VA-API for GPU acceleration in media transcoding and AMD's proprietary driver (AMDGPU-PRO) provides the AMD-AMF GPU acceleration in media transcoding. There are pros and cons to both MESA and AMDGPU-PRO, hence professional multimedia users installs both of them to get the job done for certain tasks.
Since you're hijacking my thread, I was asking about OpenCL, does your smart head knows anything about OpenCL at all?
It seems that only the GPU's proprietary drivers contains OpenCL in which I wanted to know if it's better than MESA's Clover implementation of OpenCL since it's ancient locked at version 1.1.
There is also the "ROCm" (
Radeon Open Compute platform) which is AMD's latest and official implementation for all sorts of things including OpenCL.
This is really an extreme advanced discussion and do not expect you to know any of these highly complex materials. Go spread spam and troll else where, people are here to do work and research.