AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Driver Support For "Renoir" APUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Driver Support For "Renoir" APUs

AMD is striking well over the past month with their Linux hardware bring-up. In the past month we've seen the Navi 10/12/14 support get in order for Linux as well as support for the future Vega-based Arcturus GPU and now we see the initial enablement patches for their next-generation APUs, Renoir...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Renoir-APU-Linux

[muddymind]

This is... unexpected to say the least. Navi was supposedly an architecture that could scale from mobile (samsung deal) up to high-end so how come they are still using Vega?

[Jedibeeftrix]

i don't believe they are. it will be navi.

[brent]

Maybe Renoir is much closer to release than we might think?

[halo9en]

i don't believe they are. it will be navi.

Radeon Software links Renoir to Vega, not Navi: https://twitter.com/komachi_ensaka/s...31565481586688

Maybe Renoir is much closer to release than we might think?

Q4 2019 or more probably Q1 2020.

[mumar1]

I can not believe Renoir will be Vega again, Navi (RDNA) needs less memory bandwidth, is more power efficient and from scratch designed for 7 nm, to me it makes no sense at all to go on with Vega for mobile graphics

[davidbepo]

I can not believe Renoir will be Vega again, Navi (RDNA) needs less memory bandwidth, is more power efficient and from scratch designed for 7 nm, to me it makes no sense at all to go on with Vega for mobile graphics

thats exactly my thoughts

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Radeon Software links Renoir to Vega, not Navi: https://twitter.com/komachi_ensaka/s...31565481586688



Q4 2019 or more probably Q1 2020.

That was January. Things change. I'd love to see the full list of that hex read out as I'm not seeing a single reference to Navi, but all sorts of old references up to big Vega.

[Twysock]

I think it's more of a time, effort, and money thing. I assume this would be Zen 2, Vega, and 7nm. Adding Navi to the new mix would likely push it out to mid to late 2020. With Vega, it's closer to a shrink of the existing APU, and it's possible to then have it ready to show at CES 2020, and a release in early 2020. Maybe in 2021 they add in Navi + DDR5 to the mix (though I have no idea how far out DDR5 is, let alone for mobile).

[tildearrow]

Typo:

while most of he code changes