Updated Vega 20 Firmware Binaries & Other AMDGPU Files Land In Linux-Firmware.Git

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Updated Vega 20 Firmware Binaries & Other AMDGPU Files Land In Linux-Firmware.Git

For those habitually riding the bleeding-edge open-source Radeon graphics driver stack, there are some updated firmware files now available for newer AMD graphics processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Firmware-VG20-12-March

[ALRBP]

I can understand that AMD don't want to publish firmware source code because it's "part of hardware design" but why don't they publish change-logs? AFAIK, lots of proprietary software have public change-logs.

[andrei_me]

Hope this new code fixes the issues with Radeon VII and the Raven Ridge laptop Michael

[rene]

updated in #t2sde: https://t2sde.org/packages/linux-firmware

[Michael]

Hope this new code fixes the issues with Radeon VII and the Raven Ridge laptop Michael

I don't have any Raven Ridge laptop and these firmware updates weren't for Raven anyhow.

[smitty3268]

I can understand that AMD don't want to publish firmware source code because it's "part of hardware design" but why don't they publish change-logs? AFAIK, lots of proprietary software have public change-logs.

I think it's 2 things - lack of manpower (they need someone high up who can tell what's ok to publish and what isn't), and a desire to make reverse-engineering more difficult for anyone looking at diffs between 2 versions.

[andrei_me]

I don't have any Raven Ridge laptop

True, I confused your Raven Ridge APU tests with laptop Raven Ridge

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen5-2400g-vega11&num=1