AMD Submits Radeon/AMDGPU DRM Updates Slated For Linux 4.13

[darkbasic]

The only alternative is cancelling their open source plans?

The alternative is to port some of the brand new DAL features to drm. It won't change that much IMHO because they already managed to make and maintain a pretty damn good non-DAL kernel driver.

[agd5f]

The alternative is to port some of the brand new DAL features to drm. It won't change that much IMHO because they already managed to make and maintain a pretty damn good non-DAL kernel driver.

Porting the DAL code to the legacy amdgpu modesetting code is probably more work than finishing the DAL rework and you don't get atomic support.

[agd5f]

Do we know yet, whether it is possible to run Vega with an unpatched Linux kernel and use an Intel IGP to feed the display using PRIME?

Yes, you should be able to use it in a PRIME setup.

[Guest]

Cool! I hope Arch Linux will turn on this flag, and I don't need to compile the kernel anymore for my desktop.

[Mystro256]

Yes, you can use the fully open source kernel driver from the pro packages without the closed source usermode drivers if you prefer packaged drivers.

Thanks Alex for confirming!

[lorenzoz]

@agd5f: I see you created a new branch in your git repository amd-mainline-hybrid-4.11.

What does it stand for?
Thank you.

[geearf]

Cool! I hope Arch Linux will turn on this flag, and I don't need to compile the kernel anymore for my desktop.

You don't need to compile a kernel on Arch to get amdgpu support, it's been on for months already.

As for AMD, thanks for the DCE6 audio support! I've been looking forward to it for a while

[pal666]

Can anyone from AMD can comment do they still expect DC/DAL to land at some point (in a form it conforms DRM maintainer wishes)?

why don't you ask to comment whether 2*2==4?

[pal666]

Except DC support would land in some 4.13 RC so I could buy and use it immediately. I do still hope.

dc already landed in 4.11 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/...d-staging-4.11
you just have to choose correct package

[pal666]

It won't change that much IMHO because they already managed to make and maintain a pretty damn good non-DAL kernel driver.

outside of your alternative reality they don't have non-dal vega driver. and they don't have advanced features in non-dal drivers