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On Monday 06 Feb 2017 21:39:08 jdm wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Just followed the amdgpu wiki guide to get my new graphics card up and |
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> running. Excellent wiki guide and had no issues. Now running with |
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> shiny graphics and throwing all that Steam has to offer at it. |
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> Many Thanks to the wiki authors. |
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> Will we always have to include binary blobs into the kernel for AMD |
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> cards? This feels kind of odd for me so wondering if this will be |
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> included as a package or a kernel driver at some point or what the |
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> future direction is for AMD graphics with Linux. |
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> It may not be alien but not done this before so curious. |
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> John |
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Invariably all modern CPUs, video cards, NICs, etc. are shipped with firmware |
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which are usually emerged with sys-kernel/linux-firmware (or manually) and |
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then loaded with an initrd, or by building them in the kernel. Regarding |
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AMDGPUs please note the Wiki strings of firmware blobs are not 100% correct. |
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I noticed dmesg was complaining about missing blobs on a Kaveri APU although I |
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had all the complete Kaveri string included in the kernel. I had to add: |
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radeon/bonaire_uvd.bin radeon/BONAIRE_uvd.bin radeon/BONAIRE_vce.bin |
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to keep it happy. |
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BTW, for AMDGPUs you will also need to add CPU microcode blob strings. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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