AMDGPU Patches Under Discussion For Better External GPU Hot Unplug Handling

[intelfx]

I’m not using AMD GPUs (yet?), but nevertheless I’m real glad to see something as niche as eGPUs being worked on.

By the way, how good is the NVIDIA blob against amdgpu in this context?

[RussianNeuroMancer]

It's not mentioned but if user attach previously detached eGPU it cause hard lockup. Hopefully these patches fix this lockup too.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDGPU Patches Under Discussion For Better External GPU Hot Unplug Handling

While Radeon graphics cards can work with various external GPU (eGPU) solutions, currently on Linux if trying to hot unplug such a setup can lead to various problems. An experimental patch series out this weekend is seeking to address that problem...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-eGPU-Hot-Unplug-RFC