AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support

After already several rounds of feature work queued in DRM-Next for Linux 5.6, AMD has submitted a final batch of feature work for this next kernel as it concerns their AMDGPU graphics driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Pollock-For-5.6

[leonmaxx]

EDIT: outdated.

[skeevy420]

I knew my GPU ran hot, but I had no idea it was hot enough to cook pollock with nor that AMD was considering adding fish fry support. I just bought blackening seasoning so I'm pretty stoked.

EDIT:
It didn't cook my pollock, my 580 no longer works, and my workstation smells like a Cajun fish electrical fire.

bridgman
Can AMD toss me an old Vega laying around in the back room to make up for that mistake? Oh, and some air freshener. Blackened 580 with raw pollock is a horrible smell.

[schmidtbag]

skeevy420
Part of me wonders if AMD made a [big] mistake with the name of this GPU. Their new naming scheme seems to be focused on stars. There is no star called pollock, but, there is a star called Pollux:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollux_(star)

[CochainComplex]

skeevy420
Part of me wonders if AMD made a [big] mistake with the name of this GPU. Their new naming scheme seems to be focused on stars. There is no star called pollock, but, there is a star called Pollux:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollux_(star)

I think this guy is meant. Picasso, Renoir ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock

BTW If nvidias calls it new Arch Ampere does it mean it will consume more Power?

[skeevy420]

skeevy420
Part of me wonders if AMD made a [big] mistake with the name of this GPU. Their new naming scheme seems to be focused on stars. There is no star called pollock, but, there is a star called Pollux:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollux_(star)

They're named after Artists now, like CochainComplex mentions.

Look, it was either that or saying "And now that we have Pollock support, the commits to support screen doors on submarines have just landed in amd-staging" and hoping that both: a) non-english users would understood the phonetics of pollock to get the joke; and, b) didn't want to deal with the ramifications of potentially pissing off the uptight PC brigade.

[bridgman]

EDIT: It didn't cook my pollock, my 580 no longer works, and my workstation smells like a Cajun fish electrical fire.

Sorry about that. Not sure what we can do about compensation, but we have put the follow-on "Tilapia" product on hold as a precaution until we update the user documentation.

There are probably some good "when the Pollock hits the fan" memes in there

[Lycanthropist]

Can the amdgpu driver from drm-next repository be used on a stable kernel?

[bridgman]

Can the amdgpu driver from drm-next repository be used on a stable kernel?

Depends on whether there have been any kernel API changes between the two kernels... might work if the two are sufficiently close, but there is no guarantee since code to support multiple kernel versions is not allowed upstream.

Just FYI that's the main difference between upstream and packaged kernel drivers these days - packaged drivers are built with DKMS and Kernel Compatibility Layer (KCL) code to support multiple kernel versions with a single driver code base.

[MadeUpName]

Why does AMD not adopt that bridgman? Wouldn't it make your lives easier? Are there performance issues with the KCL?