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