AMDGPU ISP Firmware Upstreamed In linux-firmware.git

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDGPU ISP Firmware Upstreamed In linux-firmware.git

It was just earlier this month that AMD Linux kernel graphics driver patches appeared for introducing a new ISP hardware block for Image Signal Processing with new AMD APUs. Already the AMDGPU ISP firmware has appeared in linux-firmware.git indicating that this "ISP" block may be coming in hardware quite soon if not already quietly found within some products...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-ISP-Firmware

[JEBjames]

@Michael

unclear, maybe typo?

"that can time in a laptop's camera front-end with post-processing operations accelerated on the GPU." I think that should be "tie" ?

[Michael]

@Michael

unclear, maybe typo?

"that can time in a laptop's camera front-end with post-processing operations accelerated on the GPU." I think that should be "tie" ?

Yes tie, thanks.

[Danny3]

Yet more proprietary garbage???
Fuck you AMD!

[aviallon]

Yet more proprietary garbage???
Fuck you AMD!

Wtf, calm down. Firmware being closed source is sadly a common practice nowadays.
At least you have an open-source kernel and user space driver.

[Kjell]

Pre-compiled binaries..

Extremely disappointed from security perspective

[Hibbelharry]

Yet more proprietary garbage???
Fuck you AMD!

Use Nvidia! Oh, stop, they've got huge binary firmware . So buy Intel! Oh, shoot, wait. Use Apple Hardware! Oh wait. Use Mali on ARM! That was a joke. Use Adreno! Ohhh....

There isn't any really modern GPU not requiring some blob firmware currently.

[Kjell]

There isn't any really modern GPU not requiring some blob firmware currently.

This shouldn't be the norm in this time and age

Let's not defend those companies

[Hibbelharry]

This shouldn't be the norm in this time and age
Let's not defend those companies

I'm not that offended by those. In the past times you've had less complex GPUs and binary firmware in some ROMs on the cards. You couldn't easily update those and you still ran propietary code. Now we're at least able to update those firmware without any real hassle, so in my perspective the world got a bit better. If we want to get those blobs out of the kernel ecosystem it would have to be put on some ROMs on the cards again and thats no win for anybody.

[Panix]

Wtf, calm down. Firmware being closed source is sadly a common practice nowadays.
At least you have an open-source kernel and user space driver.

No, he's right - AMD gpus are trash yet AMD price matches what nvidia does....so much for getting a 'cheaper' gpu and having FOSS. AMD is just nvidia's cousin.