On 02/07/2017 12:34 AM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 06 Feb 2017 17:11:30 Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 02/06/2017 04:20 PM, Mick wrote: >>> 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. >> Please explain : "BTW, for AMDGPUs you will also need to add CPU >> microcode blob strings." > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMD_microcode > > More recent CPUs may not yet have microcode updates available for them. > Compare the before and after dmesg output to see if the patch level changes. > > HTH.
Thank you. I learned something :)
