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[agd5f]

There were several later discussions via email and IRC. Additionally, the ongoing development display patches are sent to the mailing lists just like...

[agd5f]

We never asked anyone to merge any code. We sent out several RFCs, some of which resulted in some rather heated discussions. The point that I and others...

[agd5f]

You can read the threads from the previous code reviews. Mainly de-midlayering things and cleaning up the interactions with the atomic code. It may...

[agd5f]

As I've said before, the biggest obstacle to having a display configuration GUI is just the shear number of desktop environments out there and the fact...

[agd5f]

<quote>Oh, come on. DAL/DC is just about to merged for almost a year now. I get that there are hurdles, but that's why you don't announce* stuff...

[agd5f]

I get that the main point of this article is to try and shame AMD, but all of the "hurdles" mentioned with regard to DC support would seem to...

[agd5f]

This is mainly useful for ARM SoCs where you have different independent 3D, multi-media, and display hardware and you want to share buffers between them...

[agd5f]

As one who has worked pretty extensively with power management in the AMD drivers, having firmware involved is not really a panacea by any means. Firmware...

[agd5f]

GLVND has nothing to do with the kernel. It's all handled in userspace (mesa and X for example)....

[agd5f]

It should work fine with the open source driver....

[agd5f]

That's the idea. Basically a whitelist of games that it helps....

[agd5f]

It's not quite so simple. What would be nice is if the desktop environments came up with a decent display control GUI that was not desktop environment...

[agd5f]

It does have a runtime control. I suspect that is what Michael used for this test....

[agd5f]

Kaveri is CI (gfx7) based. Carrizo/Bristol are VI (gfx8) based. Oland is an SI (gfx6) based sGPU....

[agd5f]

Yes, it works just fine with the open source stack using amd-staging-4.11....

[agd5f]

It is open source already. It was released a month or so ago. However, at any given time there may be features that are not upstream yet or not upstreamable...

[agd5f]

ROCm shares most of the same kernel driver with amdgpu. There are just some pieces that are not upstream yet. We are working on that. As for the requirements,...

[agd5f]

vega10 firmware is available here:
https://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5..._ucode/vega10/
Best kernel branch for vega10 support:
htt...

[agd5f]

I think there are some new SKUs released recently so it was updated with new marketing names. The marketing names were part of libdrm which caused it...

[agd5f]

I think it just updates some marketing names.