The radeon marketing names are a mess, each generation of marketing number names can contain multiple generations of hardware with varying levels of support.
We don't have support in the kernel for the OLAND and HAINAN parts and only support basic modesetting on some of the GCN/Southern Islands parts. Have a look at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ and avoid any Southern Islands or Sea Islands parts if you're interested in acceleration. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:58:06AM +0100, Stefan Wollny wrote: > Hi there! > > As I think of replacing my old laptop with a new Lenovo S540 I checked > radeon(4) if the 'HD 8670M' might be supported. > > I noticed the following on the man page that appears to be somewhat > strange: > > OLAND Radeon HD 8000 series > HAINAN Radeon HD 8000 series > > My first guess is that this is a typo on one of the chips. Otherwise I > would appreciate a short hint if the above mentioned radeon card is > support at this time. > > Cheers, > STEFAN
