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It Looks Like AMDGPU DC (DAL) Will Not Be Accepted In The Linux Kernel
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Last edited by dungeon; 10 December 2016, 03:46 AM.
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Originally posted by gorgamin View PostI might be crucified for saying this, but would it rather be possible for AMD to release a version of ArchLinux/Ubuntu where the driver blobs are already included? This might be a short term solution? Or do I have it all wrong?
Somebody else can do it. Valve did it with Debian.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View Post
That implies the use of AMDGPU-PRO, doesn't it? What if I do not want to use AMDGPU-PRO, but instead stay on with a vanilla kernel + libDRM + Mesa stack? What will i expect to lose?
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Originally posted by bridgman View Post
We did it with amdgpu but yeah it's not easy. If you look at the amdgpu code you'll see low-level HW IP block handlers (which can potentially be shared across OSes) used and controlled by a Linux-specific top-level driver. It's never as easy or clean as one would like though.
That is also how I expect we will end up organizing DAL/DC (portable IP-block handlers connected by Linux-specific driver code), but it's hard to make that work right now until we finish reorganizing drivers for the other OSes along the same IP-block lines that amdgpu uses today.
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