On 01/09/16 11:25 AM, Bridgman, John wrote:
> One suggestion that was made recently was for AMD to supply packages
> containing only HW microcode images for AMD GPUs...
The microcode images for AMD GPUs have already been split out into a
separate firmware-amd-graphics package in Debian sid (and pr
their hardware designs.
Thanks,
John
>-Original Message-
>From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf
>Of Huang Rui
>Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 10:15 PM
>To: Frederique
>Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: Re: AMD and free and
rederique
>Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: RE: AMD and free and open source software
>
>Right... the microcode is part of the HW design; some vendors build the
>microcode images into the chip, while others have the BIOS or driver load
>them at start-up.
>
>The industry is gene
We don't have the plan to open up firmware source.
Thanks,
Rui
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 04:16:59AM +0800, Frederique wrote:
> Dear Huang Rui,
>
> I recently swapped my NVIDIA Geforce 980 Ti for an AMD R9 Fury because
> of the devoted efforts that are being made towards a free and open
> source
