It's Really Worthwhile For AMDGPU Users On Ubuntu 16.04 To Upgrade Their Kernel, Mesa

[grigi]

OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.10

You should always look at Core profile, since the compat profile is only up till 3.0.

Hence you have OpenGL 4.1, which is correct for Mesa 11.2 :-)

[Dr. Righteous]

You should always look at Core profile, since the compat profile is only up till 3.0.

Hence you have OpenGL 4.1, which is correct for Mesa 11.2 :-)

Finally pulled down the Mesa update. here is the current spill:

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PITCAIRN (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-040800rc2-generic, LLVM 3.9.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 12.1.0-devel
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 12.1.0-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 12.1.0-devel
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

[grigi]

Finally pulled down the Mesa update. here is the current spill:

OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 12.1.0-devel

Yay! A lot of games should be working quite nicely now :-)

[Dea1993]

I'm using custom kernel 4.7 and with padoka ppa packages in Carrizo A10, very happy with the performance improvements. Now it can play 4k sample video in vlc.

I've a carrizo A10 (A10 8700p) wich custom kernel do you use? do you use amd-staging?
gpu performance on my notebook aren't really good on linux, but i know that amd-staging is really better (and includes DAL support, and better power management)

[safknw]

I've a carrizo A10 (A10 8700p) wich custom kernel do you use? do you use amd-staging?
gpu performance on my notebook aren't really good on linux, but i know that amd-staging is really better (and includes DAL support, and better power management)

Currently using 4.8.6, with latest amdgpu packages from padoka repo. Many X11/KDE related issues were fixed it and video playback also much better now, VLC can now play 4K videos. I build kernel usog
I've not played any games yet, so can't comment on gaming.