AMDGPU DRM Driver Updates To Work With Production Polaris GPUs

[shmerl]

Make a custom linux kernel from kernel.org. it is easy,

Isn't dkms module supposed to be easier than making a custom kernel? Sounds like an overkill to compile the whole thing if you need only that one change.

[boxie]

Open Source Launch support. This is good work AMD. bridgman make sure to congratulate your team for us!

[Nobu]

Sorry if triple-post--forums seem to be eating my posts...at least, there's not the usual "your post is awaiting moderation" message at the top of the page. :/

For a regular end-user it means they have to use the amdgpu-pro driver, as regular users usually have a distro installed, which they usually don't modify with alien packages. Even the latest Fedora and Arch only have 4.5, 4.7 reaching mainstream usage is in a galaxy, far, far away. Still, it'll get there eventually, of course.

Arch has Linux 4.6.2.

[cRaZy-bisCuiT]

"My name is boxie!"

[bridgman]

Open Source Launch support. This is good work AMD. bridgman make sure to congratulate your team for us!

Thanks, but not my team any more. twriter manages the team now

[tomtomme]

For a regular end-user it means they have to use the amdgpu-pro driver, as regular users usually have a distro installed, which they usually don't modify with alien packages. Even the latest Fedora and Arch only have 4.5, 4.7 reaching mainstream usage is in a galaxy, far, far away. Still, it'll get there eventually, of course.

If you run opensuse Tumbleweed chances are high that kernel 4.7 (currenlty 4.6.2) will be available officially and tested 1 or 2 weeks after its release wich will be in about 3-4 weeks. Mesa 12 should hit Tumbleweed a bit earlier than 4.7. But if you want to use rx480 on launch day you need untested beta stuff or amdgpu-pro

[boxie]

Thanks, but not my team any more. twriter manages the team now

Cool - Hi twriter Congrats to you and your team

Out of pure curiosity - what is the breakdown of Team AMD atm? who is who and who does what (wow, that sounds like I have been reading too much Dr Seuss)

[twriter]

That would be great if they actually decide to do a generic package/installer, you know , for linux and not just a .deb

You can't please everyone. fglrx installation was fraught with problems and the packaging scripts were wonderfully baroque. For AMDGPU Pro, we made a conscious decision to provide native packages and to validate native package installation. Upcoming releases will add support for other distros and we'll have native packages for them too. We'll also be releasing our packaging scripts so other distributions can use them as a reference. They use a distro agnostic core so should be straightforward to adapt to any distribution and packaging format, including tarball or direct installation into /usr/local.

[twriter]

Is there DKMS package for amdgpu alone? How can one install it in Debian testing on any kernel (or it's not possible)? I'd rather update it as soon as new version will come out, instead of waiting for not so frequent kernel updates.

We don't validate it right now but you should be able to use the amdgpu-pro DKMS package with the otherwise open source stack. We hope to provide DKMS packages for the open source stack in the future. As nhaehnle mentioned, some other changes are required for Polaris.

[twriter]

Cool - Hi twriter Congrats to you and your team

Thanks!

Out of pure curiosity - what is the breakdown of Team AMD atm? who is who and who does what (wow, that sounds like I have been reading too much Dr Seuss)

Unfortunately, I can't talk about that. I think it's obvious from the pace and breadth of open source contributions that we have more people working on open source now than in the past.