Radeon Navi 12/14 Open-Source Driver Support Now Being Marked As "Experimental"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon Navi 12/14 Open-Source Driver Support Now Being Marked As "Experimental"

In an interesting change of course, the open-source driver support for AMD Radeon Navi 12 and Navi 14 GPUs is being flagged as experimental and hidden behind a feature flag...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Navi-12-Navi-14-AMDGPU-Exp

[tildearrow]

I agree upon this change.
Generally AMD cards do not work reliably under Linux during their first months, and after roughly 6 months they become very stable.

[shmerl]

Navi 10 itself is still buggy: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111481

[ThoreauHD]

Navi 12 gets SR-IOV.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2019-September/040077.html

[wizard69]

I have to object to the use of “hide”. Not compiling in a feature (doesn’t matter what the software is for) isn’t hiding any thing. In fact it is pretty smart to separate out that buggy code.

[nuetzel]

@Michael

'...the Navi 12/14 introduction could be further away than some would hope...'

vs

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=83f195414a2e89bd9f549dacc04365f67e5bd110

radeonsi: add Navi12 PCI ID
trivial and urgent

Cc: 19.2 <[email protected]>

[tildearrow]

I have to object to the use of “hide”. Not compiling in a feature (doesn’t matter what the software is for) isn’t hiding any thing. In fact it is pretty smart to separate out that buggy code.

It is much better to have said feature disabled by default (and just hidden behind a kernel param) than having to download a separate tree and wait like 1 hour until it compiles.