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It Looks Like AMDGPU DC (DAL) Will Not Be Accepted In The Linux Kernel
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Originally posted by bridgman View Post
Once we get to that point I expect we should see our Linux development work become at least a bit more efficient (by virtue of working with the HW devs when they actually remember something about the chip we are trying to bring up, and being able to identify HW plans that don't work for Linux or open source), and I believe that will give us an opportunity to start working outside of the driver again.
A great step in the right direction for certain.
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Originally posted by ihatemichaelLOL at this email:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...er/126684.html
The AMD employee is acting all self-entitled over this, I'm glad he didn't get his way or it would have been a mess.
Alex and Dave have been working together on ATI/AMD Linux drivers for 10+ years, and are maybe the most effective team I have seen in my entire career. That usually involves some arguing back and forth until everyone agrees on a direction. You just don't get to see most of it.Last edited by bridgman; 10 December 2016, 12:11 AM.Test signature
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Originally posted by dungeon View PostMaybe Michael should write another article about now this Alex's message... also these nearly two hundreds comments here gets difficult to read
It is a bit provocative, so has all the elements to be perfect for clickbait
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...er/126698.html
It is also a pretty good description of what we did as part of the radeon->amdgpu re-architecture effort.
IMO what people are forgetting is that the traditional open source development process has been something like:
- go to conference
- have big face-to-face arguments about important topics
- drink a lot of beer and try to write down outcome of arguments
- go home and adjust your work to align with what got written down
- repeat
Unfortunately travel budgets are getting smaller (boo !) and Linux development teams are getting larger (yay !) so relatively more of the arguments end up on email. There's probably a climate change analogy in there.Last edited by bridgman; 10 December 2016, 12:39 AM.Test signature
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Originally posted by indepe View PostSounds like it would be difficult to write a native "linuxy" driver which would intelligently interface with platform-independent code, instead of being a dumb HAL instance.
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.Test signature
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