Here's An Ubuntu/Debian Kernel To Play With AMDGPU On GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Here's An Ubuntu/Debian Kernel To Play With AMDGPU On GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs

If you have a GCN 1.0 Southern Islands or GCN 1.1 Sea Islands graphics card and have been wanting to play with the experimental AMDGPU kernel DRM driver as an alternative to the Radeon DRM driver, here's an opportunity for Ubuntu/Debian users...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Next-Deb-Kernel-1

[thebishop]

Cool post. I have a self-built "steam machine" with an HD7850 inside, so this should bring it back to life a bit. Can you provide a little more detail about enabling DRM-next? I kinda want to build my own kernel for the FUN of it.

[DanL]

So you can use amdgpu pro with this, correct?

[timofonic]

So you can use amdgpu pro with this, correct?

Doesn't AMDGPU Pro depend on a proprietary kernel module? I'm confused about this and these days I lack AMD hardware (sorry but GPU drivers sucked and these days are just starting to improve thanks to Mesa support, CPUs also lacked a lot power and let's see what's oingoing on Zen to get a desktop in the future).

[juno]

The amdgpu pro drm kernel module ships with dkms.

[bridgman]

Right... the kernel module is shipped in source code form, as a DKMS package.

[Imroy]

The amdgpu pro drm kernel module ships with dkms.

True. But you can also just use the amdgpu driver in recent kernels and use the rest of the user-space amdgpu-pro packages to get their proprietary OpenGL/OpenCL/Vulkan drivers. I've been using this for a few months now on my R7 260X (GCN gen 2) card and it's working pretty well.
IIRC, all I had to do was edit the install script to not install the dkms package. Oh, and to recognise Debian.
Also, you have to install their libdrm package because they've added a function that their drivers require.

[pal666]

So you can use amdgpu pro with this, correct?

if you have amdgpu pro, you don't need this, you could use mesa with kernel from amdgpu pro

[pal666]

Doesn't AMDGPU Pro depend on a proprietary kernel module?

on open kernel module with small soon to be upstreamed patch

[asdfgh]

heh
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffffc072527f>] amdgpu_fence_wait_empty+0x1f/0x90 [amdgpu]