RADV Starts Off Another Exciting Week Of Development

[bridgman]

HDMI audio is not fully working until DAL/DC lands. That's at least what AMD devs were saying.

... or until we (or someone) port the audio code from radeon to amdgpu (for SI).

[droste]

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I wonder if CIK ought to be on by default by now, unless some issue I don't know about.
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HDMI audio is not fully working until DAL/DC lands. That's at least what AMD devs were saying.

[shmerl]

bridgman are you able to share anything new about the progress on opening up the AMD Vulkan driver?

And if not details, may be some rough ETA for completing this tedious process?

[Herem]

bridgman are you able to share anything new about the progress on opening up the AMD Vulkan driver?

[bridgman]

the official driver in the official linux kernel is the RadeonSI+AMDGPU driver.

the closed source driver IS NOT OFFICIAL.

Hah... that's funny to hear after years of "the open source driver is not official because I don't download it from amd.com and because some non-AMD developers contributed to it".

[nomadewolf]

the official driver in the official linux kernel is the RadeonSI+AMDGPU driver.

the closed source driver IS NOT OFFICIAL.

So, by official, you mean, in the Linux Kernel. Is that it?

[ResponseWriter]

I think you have to compile the kernel by yourself to get GC1 working, right? I also think HD79xx still don't work so well?

Run this command:

zgrep AMDGPU /proc/config.gz

If you see CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_SI=y then your kernel has support for your card without recompiling (likely only kernel 4.9 and later).

Can't speak for SI but AMDGPU works well for me on a 290 (CIK). I wonder if CIK ought to be on by default by now, unless some issue I don't know about.

The work going towards this driver is much appreciated but won't it somewhat go to waste once the official driver from AMD comes out?
... or is it about having a good placeholder until that happens?

There are at least two OpenGL implementations (Clover, AMDGPU-Pro) and you can choose to install one or the other. Don't see why there can't be two Vulkan implementations, except maintenance burden.

[nomadewolf]

"still unofficial"?
You mean there's a chance AMD will adopt this driver?

[Xicronic]

At this rate, AMD open-sourcing their Vulkan driver is going to be near-pointless.

[Evil Penguin]

The work going towards this driver is much appreciated but won't it somewhat go to waste once the official driver from AMD comes out?
... or is it about having a good placeholder until that happens?