AMD's DAL Was Just Presented At XDC2016, Still Not Clear When It Will Be Mainlined

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD's DAL Was Just Presented At XDC2016, Still Not Clear When It Will Be Mainlined

Harry Wentland of AMD just presented at the XDC2016 conference about DAL, the big Display Abstraction Layer code-base, which many AMD Linux users have been waiting to see merged in order to have Polaris audio support and this is one of the stepping stones for seeing FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync and other modern display capabilities...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-DAL-XDC2016

[dungeon]

It will be mainlined once devs are happy with code.

For pro users here is what i just found in alterantive news driver for win agency:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5337536&postcount=12

Only that i don't have FreeSync monitor to test that not yet available driver for Linux... but at least we have what to read (and expect) for now

[Michael]

DAL is already integrated to the 4.7 kernel:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/drivers/gpu/drm/amd?h=amd-staging-4.7

This kernel gets same updates than kernel 4.9 driver. I do not have hardware to test DAL but I have enabled it in the kernel without problems.

No, it's not part of 4.7 mainline.

[dungeon]

Being mainlined means - once it is in Linus Torvalds main tree.

[juno]

Wow the audio quality is bad, it is quite hard for me to follow.

[bridgman]

Just to avoid any misunderstandings... the amd-staging-4.7 tree is an internal development tree which contains latest amdgpu code on top of a 4.7 release kernel... so the driver code in amd-staging-4.7 is definitely not the same as what you would find in the 4.7 kernel.

[juno]

so the driver code in amd-staging-4.7 is definitely not the same as what you would find in the 4.7 kernel.

nor in any mainline kernel anytime soon

[dungeon]

Year and half on average as Harry said in video... but i guess no one watched that

[dungeon]

Year or half... OK i am not an editor

[dungeon]

Just to avoid any misunderstandings... the amd-staging-4.7 tree is an internal development tree which contains latest amdgpu code on top of a 4.7 release kernel... so the driver code in amd-staging-4.7 is definitely not the same as what you would find in the 4.7 kernel.

Debian Testing is also for testing... but debianxfce uses it as something else, so LEGO seems prevail

And AMD's internal development tree suddenly became new mainline