AMDGPU Gets RPM Fan Info, Clock/Power-Gating Improvements & More For Linux 4.10

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDGPU Gets RPM Fan Info, Clock/Power-Gating Improvements & More For Linux 4.10

Last month AMD sent out their big feature pull to DRM-Next for staging ahead of Linux 4.10 while now a secondary feature pull request has been sent in of more material for this next kernel development series...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-AMDGPU-More-4.10

[boltronics]

Hopefully it's not just fans, but LEDs too. The Fury X GPUs have broken status LEDs for anyone not using the ancient Catalyst drivers, and I get constant complaints from my spouse because it appears I'm always running my cards at max power.

[Shevchen]

So, I can finally have a native settings for my custom fan-curve instead of relying on aur-packages? Oh please yes!

[eydee]

Fan info wasn't in by default, interesting. No wonder the new "CCC" isn't ported even though it is Qt. Some important features it handles aren't even implemented yet.

[bridgman]

Yep, there was some discussion of this a couple of months ago - porting CCC will become feasible, but all the plumbing needs to go into the driver first.

[Amarildo]

Is anyone able to boot with 4.10-wip using the amdgpu Kernel driver on SI Cards?

[agd5f]

We've always exposed pwm based fan information (aka percent based fan info). All cards support percent based fan info. This patch just exposes rpm based fan info if available as well.