Radeon DRM Finally Has HD 6000 Series HDMI Audio

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon DRM Finally Has HD 6000 Series HDMI Audio

The open-source Radeon DRM/KMS driver in the mainline kernel beginning with the Linux 3.5 release will finally provide support for HDMI audio on the Radeon HD 6000 "Northern Islands" graphics cards...

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

[zoomblab]

Meanwhile ...

My 7870 still has no HDMI audio with official Catalyst 12.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

That is 6 months after card release and 2 months after OS release.

[Vadi]

My GTX 560 does have it. Works perfect

[archibald]

My Radeon 4850 has it, but I don't have a sound system or monitor that use HDMI :-(

[droidhacker]

My 7870 still has no HDMI audio with official Catalyst 12.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

That is 6 months after card release and 2 months after OS release.

So what does that have to do with enabling 6xxx hdmi audio in radeon kms driver?

[droidhacker]

My GTX 560 does have it. Works perfect

Moron.
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[droidhacker]

It's this commit that enables HDMI audio

it's still not enabled by default for fear of bugs

The latter is contradictory to the first, and not supported by the [shocked]external link[/shocked] you provided.

[V10lator]

The latter is contradictory to the first

No it isn't. The first means enabling (including) it in code, the second talks about the default kernel config.

and not supported by the [shocked]external link[/shocked] you provided.

Yes, it is:

hopefully will allow enabling it by default in the near future.

But there's still some issue in the Article:

The exception though is that this HDMI audio support doesn't cover the Radeon HD 6900 series at this point.

Doesn't reflect what's written at the block:

enable HDMI on DCE5 (AKA NI excluding Aruba)

So it works on Nothern Island except Aruba?
HD 6950/6970/6990 are Cayman, not Aruba and I don't know any other HD 69XX cards. If I remember correctly Aruba are early HD 7XXX cards.

[Zajec]

So it works on Nothern Island except Aruba?
HD 6950/6970/6990 are Cayman, not Aruba and I don't know any other HD 69XX cards. If I remember correctly Aruba are early HD 7XXX cards.

CEDAR		DCE4		Evergreen
REDWOOD		DCE4		Evergreen
JUNIPER		DCE4		Evergreen
CYPRESS		DCE4		Evergreen
HEMLOCK		DCE4		Evergreen?
PALM		DCE4/4.1	Evergreen
CHIP_SUMO	DCE4/4.1	Evergreen
CHIP_SUMO2	DCE4/4.1	Evergreen
BARTS		DCE5		NI
TURKS		DCE5		NI
CAICOS		DCE5		NI
CAYMAN		DCE5		NI
ARUBA		DCE6/6.1	NI
TAHITI		DCE6/6.1	SI
PITCAIRN	DCE6/6.1	SI
VERDE		DCE6/6.1	SI

I've compiled table above using RadeonFeature wiki page. According to that Aruba is still Northern Islands, but it is newer DCE6 or DCE6.1. We support HDMI up to DCE5 only, so Aruba is not supported.

[curaga]

Aruba = Trinity.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTA3NDE