Radeon/AMDGPU Updates For The Linux 4.8 Kernel
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Some will be sad though, the AMDGPU material for Linux 4.8 doesn't contain the huge DAL display abstraction layer code that's needed for bringing the open-source AMDGPU driver display capabilities more on par with the former closed-source driver stack and also necessary for supporting new features like FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync.
What is included for drm-next-4.8 on the red side are ATPX improvements for better discrete GPU power control on PowerXpress systems, new power features for Carrizo/BR/Stoney hardware, pipelines buffer object moves and evictions in TTM, GPU scheduler improvements, GPU reset improvements, overclocking on dGPUs, code clean-ups, and many bug fixes.
The AMDGPU overclocking support would be the main end-user feature for Linux 4.8 when it comes to Radeon/AMDGPU. This overclocking support was previously explored on Phoronix and will just work with the latest AMDGPU-supported hardware.
For more details on these AMDGPU/Radeon changes that will be merged into the mainline Linux kernel in a few weeks during the 4.8 merge window, see this mailing list post. Looks like I'll be running some Linux 4.7 vs. AMDGPU drm-next benchmarks this weekend!
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