Open-Source AMD Fusion E-350 Support Takes A Dive

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Open-Source AMD Fusion E-350 Support Takes A Dive

If you have been thinking about picking up a motherboard with one of AMD's new Fusion E-350 "Zacate" APUs to use with the open-source Fusion driver, you may want to hold off for a bit or be forewarned that it could be a bumpy ride...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTE5OA

[Lynxeye]

Why would you want to compile the Kernel on the Fusion Board itself? Just use a i7 or Phenom machine to compile the kernel and copy it over to the testsystem.

[wpoely86]

VA-API/XvBA

How does VA-API/XvBA preform on the fusion platform?

[Lynxeye]

And you should probably first investigate further on this in your log:
[ 5.125212] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/PALM_pfp.bin"
[ 5.125258] [drm:evergreen_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

Damn edittime limit!

[allquixotic]

A brand new ASIC doesn't work with the open source graphics drivers? Really??? What a surprise.

Now I'd be surprised if it doesn't work as well as Evergreen does today in 2012...

[Daekdroom]

And you should probably first investigate further on this in your log:
[ 5.125212] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/PALM_pfp.bin"
[ 5.125258] [drm:evergreen_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

Damn edittime limit!

He needs linux-firmware 1.48

[Ansla]

And you should probably first investigate further on this in your log:
[ 5.125212] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/PALM_pfp.bin"
[ 5.125258] [drm:evergreen_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

Indeed, you are lacking the out of kernel firmware, check if your distribution has a radeon-ucode package and install it, otherwise download it from http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ and unpack it in /lib/firmware/radeon

[d2kx]

I think I remember Ubuntu 10.10 also had a similar problem where they shipped the firmware but installed it into a wrong directory for some cards. Check this, Michael.

[mattst88]

What is it with the love affair with the word 'defenestrated'?

[Michael]

Indeed, you are lacking the out of kernel firmware, check if your distribution has a radeon-ucode package and install it, otherwise download it from http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ and unpack it in /lib/firmware/radeon

Whoops, the Ubuntu package is indeed missing it, but the graphics are still broke.

UPDATE: It turns out that the Ubuntu mainline kernels are missing the Fusion firmware. However, when dropping in the upstream PALM and SUMO firmware, the graphics still fail; black screen with the cursor and it's soft locked-up but there is still remote access. The new dmesg.