RE: [gentoo-user] (Not Solved for me) anyone tried amdgpu (kernel module)

[Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor]

> From: michaelkintzios@×××××.com
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] (Not Solved for me) anyone tried amdgpu (kernel module)
> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:25:29 +0000
>
> On Sunday 20 Dec 2015 20:29:28 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 19 Dec 2015 17:15:04 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > > > > Have you tried this firmware package instead,
> > >
> > > sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode?
> > >
> > > > > Do you have the firmware included in your kernel config file?
> > > > >
> > > > > Device Drivers  --->
> > > > >
> > > > >     Generic Driver Options  --->
> > > > >
> > > > >         -*- Userspace firmware loading support
> > > > >         [*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
> > > > >
> > > > >             (amdgpu/<YOUR-MODEL>.bin radeon/<YOUR-MODEL>.bin)
> > > > >             (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes I have the firmware includes, I'll try the amdgpu-ucode and
> > > > > report back.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -------------
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Mission successful!  Thanks everyone, it appears the missing
> > > > > sdma1.bin from linux-firmware is contained in amdgpu-ucode and after
> > > > > switching everything is running fine.
> > > >
> > > > Good to hear.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for letting us know.
> > >
> > > This is not working for me on a Kaveri system.
> > >
> > > The wiki page suggests these firmware blobs:
> > >
> > > radeon/kaveri_ce.bin radeon/kaveri_me.bin radeon/kaveri_mec2.bin
> > > radeon/kaveri_mec.bin radeon/kaveri_pfp.bin radeon/kaveri_rlc.bin
> > > radeon/kaveri_sdma1.bin radeon/kaveri_sdma.bin radeon/kaveri_uvd.bin
> > > radeon/kaveri_vce.bin
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, radeon/kaveri_sdma1.bin does not seen to be available when
> > > I use sys-kernel/linux-firmware:
> > >
> > > find /lib/firmware/radeon/ -iname KAVERI*sdma*
> > > /lib/firmware/radeon/kaveri_sdma.bin
> > > /lib/firmware/radeon/KAVERI_sdma.bin
> > >
> > >
> > > I installed sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode, but KAVERI is not found there
> > > either:
> > >
> > > find /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ -iname *sdma*
> > > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/carrizo_sdma.bin
> > > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/carrizo_sdma1.bin
> > > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/fiji_sdma.bin
> > > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/fiji_sdma1.bin
> > > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/tonga_sdma.bin
> > > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/tonga_sdma1.bin
> > > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/topaz_sdma.bin
> > > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/topaz_sdma1.bin
> > >
> > >
> > > Building the recommended blobs fails like so:
> > >
> > > # make && make modules_install && make firmware_install
> > >
> > >   CHK     include/config/kernel.release
> > >   CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
> > >   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
> > >   CHK     include/generated/bounds.h
> > >   CHK     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
> > >   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > >   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
> > >
> > > kernel/Makefile:135: *** No X.509 certificates found ***
> > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> > > '/lib/firmware//radeon/kaveri_sdma1.bin',
> > > needed by 'firmware/radeon/kaveri_sdma1.bin.gen.o'.  Stop.
> > > Makefile:947: recipe for target 'firmware' failed
> > > make: *** [firmware] Error 2
> > >
> > > What now?
> > >
> > > PS.  As VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf I used to have radeon and radeonsi, but
> > > have
> > > now changed it to amdgpu and radeonsi.  Should I revert and forget about
> > > radeon/kaveri_sdma1.bin?
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Mick
> >
> > That's interesting. 'kaveri_sdma1.bin' is found in the
> > 'sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode' package. See below.
> > % pwd
> > radeon_ucode/kaveri
> > % ls -1 *sdma*
> > kaveri_sdma.bin
> > kaveri_sdma1.bin
> >
> > Perhaps the path to the binary blobs specified in your kernel config file
> > is wrong? You want to double check that.
> > Device Drivers  --->
> > Generic Driver Options  --->
> >          -*- Userspace firmware loading support
> >          [*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
> >              (amdgpu/<YOUR-MODEL>.bin radeon/<YOUR-MODEL>.bin)
> >              (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory
>
> Hmm .. perhaps I've been doing this wrong?  Should I fill in:
>
> (amdgpu/kaveri.bin radeon/kaveri.bin)
>
> instead of:
>
> (radeon/kaveri_ce.bin radeon/kaveri_me.bin radeon/kaveri_mec2.bin
> radeon/kaveri_mec.bin radeon/kaveri_pfp.bin radeon/kaveri_rlc.bin
> radeon/kaveri_sdma1.bin radeon/kaveri_sdma.bin radeon/kaveri_uvd.bin
> radeon/kaveri_vce.bin)
>
> I've been doing the latter for as long as I can remember.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick



For my part, switching to amdgpu resulted in hard locking on sleep/resume, when switching back to radeon, there was another hard lock on boot if I continued using the amdgpu-ucode, until I removed it and put linux-firmware back on, there seems to be differences between the two.
amdgpu kernel, amdgpu-ucode, and (radeon/kaveri_ce.bin radeon/kaveri_me.bin radeon/kaveri_mec2.bin radeon/kaveri_mec.bin radeon/kaveri_pfp.bin radeon/kaveri_rlc.bin radeon/kaveri_sdma1.bin radeon/kaveri_sdma.bin radeon/kaveri_uvd.bin radeon/kaveri_vce.bin) all together should do the trick