The Updated AMD Polaris Firmware Blobs Needed For RX 480 Support Land
One day ahead of the Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" launch, the necessary firmware updates for the production graphics card support have landed in linux-firmware.git.
A few days back I outlined the requirements for the open-source RX 480 Linux support. Besides needing a Linux kernel branch, Mesa Git, and more, newer AMDGPU firmware files are needed beyond what's been distributed via linux-firmware.git. These updated firmware files were available via the radeon_ucode HTTP/FTP directory while as of this afternoon they have landed in the official Git tree.
So if you plan on picking up a Radeon RX 480 for Linux this week or in the near future, be sure to get the latest Linux-Firmware Git if you are wanting to use the fully open driver stack.
Benchmarks coming up tomorrow at 9.00 EST!
A few days back I outlined the requirements for the open-source RX 480 Linux support. Besides needing a Linux kernel branch, Mesa Git, and more, newer AMDGPU firmware files are needed beyond what's been distributed via linux-firmware.git. These updated firmware files were available via the radeon_ucode HTTP/FTP directory while as of this afternoon they have landed in the official Git tree.
So if you plan on picking up a Radeon RX 480 for Linux this week or in the near future, be sure to get the latest Linux-Firmware Git if you are wanting to use the fully open driver stack.
Benchmarks coming up tomorrow at 9.00 EST!
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