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[bridgman]

Correct. On Windows we use PAL for DX12 Vulkan and OpenCL, and may use it for other APIs in future. Any drivers for other OSes that share Windows code...

[bridgman]

One option worth trying for OpenCL would be to install the packaged version from the AMDGPU-PRO download. That version runs over PAL rather than ROCm...

[bridgman]

It's separate from VBIOS - the SMC firmware goes into the initramdisk so the driver can load it, while the VBIOS is flashed into EEPROM....

[bridgman]

... and I read your post twice, so I guess it's double-confirmed ...

[bridgman]

I admit to being an irrational coffee zealot, but I hope that doesn't make me a bad person....

[bridgman]

The good-ish news is that AFAIK most game engines push the same amount of geometry through at 1080p as they do at 4K, so the API/driver plateau should...

[bridgman]

What about something like the RX550 ? IIRC it's a bit faster than the GTX 1030 and in the same price range.

Any smaller than that and you're...

[bridgman]

Sorry, adopt what ? If you are talking about KCL, that kind of code (support for previous kernel versions) is not allowed upstream....

[bridgman]

Depends on whether there have been any kernel API changes between the two kernels... might work if the two are sufficiently close, but there is no guarantee...

[bridgman]

Sorry about that. Not sure what we can do about compensation, but we have put the follow-on "Tilapia" product on hold as a precaution until...

[bridgman]

The LWN subscription model seems like a pretty good one....

[bridgman]

If it helps, I think you are getting flamed only because you picked a high end Renoir rather than one of our lower power chips, eg the 6W part we supply...

[bridgman]

You probably know this but just in case...

Talos II is a dual-socket motherboard, and there is a single-socket version (Lite) for less than...

[bridgman]

This is the thread for complaining about PSP... there's another thread for complaining about the video drivers ...

[bridgman]

My impression is that Hollywood has found a new solution to limit duplication and is in the process of rolling it out as we speak.

Rather...

[bridgman]

Agreed... most decisions to restrict freedom are driven by emotion rather than logic... basically "we're not sure it's needed but if we don't do...

[bridgman]

In fairness, if the technology had existed in 1940 to duplicate a book with a single button push and essentially zero added cost we probably *would* have...

[bridgman]

I have posted about it at least once; I believe agd5f has as well. We didn't realize that anyone was waiting for us to produce the magic microcode though,...

[bridgman]

Sorry, should have said drirc rather than driconf.

That said, I was using driconf recently on a Kaveri system (radeon kernel driver) and...

[bridgman]

Right, "all" we need to do is create a magic microcode image that makes make GCN1 hardware behave like a newer GPU when the microcode store...