Endless Computer Is Looking Forward To Using AMDGPU DC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Endless Computer Is Looking Forward To Using AMDGPU DC

Endless Mobile, the company behind the Linux-based Flatpak-using Endless OS and that has sold several different low-cost computers around the world, is looking forward to AMDGPU DC...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Endless-AMDGPU-DC

[FireBurn]

Aren't they also looking to backport all of DC to 4.14 too

[Adarion]

I'm on Gentoo so I can always have a recent kernel if I want, but a well-fixed AMDGPU DC would be great in a long-term-support kernel for all those distributions who tend to use those. That would be highly beneficial for a lot of distributions and users out there.
And the news shows that there is cooperation between vendors / manufacturers and GPU / chip developers. Bug and regression testing, security audits (a German e-mail provider teamed up very recently with Mozilla to audit Thunderbird+Enigmail) and possible suggestions for patches. Win-win-win-situation.

[Kendji]

If I can get e Vega or successor for cheaper than 500€, then I too will be looking forwards to the same

[dwagner]

I appreciate that Endless Computer's effort brings some attention to three significant bugs, all of which had been reported earlier already. Unluckily, I cannot confirm their statement on the S3-resume-hang bug: "appears fixed on agd5f/amd-staging-drm-next" is definitely not the case, my system hangs on every single S3 resume with that branch as of today.

And Endless Computer might be even more concerned about the state of the driver once they encounter the random (and not too infrequent) crashes after "[drm] IP block:gmc_v8_0 is hung!" - which along with the S3 issue render amdgpu unfit for any serious-work computer as of now.

Let's hope there will be some priority given to fixing bugs amongst the frenzy for new features.

[lejeczek]

HDMI devices appearing as connected when disconnect I get on my Dell Intel Skylake laptop - kernel 4.14.xx - maybe it's the(a) kernel?