Applied the series. Thanks! Alex
On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM Timur Kristóf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now that analog connector support is merged in DC, > amdgpu has reached feature parity with the old radeon > driver on CIK dedicated GPUs. > > This series refactors how the default driver for SI/CIK > is determined, adds a "-1" option for default, and makes > it possible to determine the default depending on the > chip. This way we can make sure to keep using radeon on > those chips that are not at feature parity yet. > > As a reminder, CIK dedicated GPUs are the following: > Hawaii (2013~2015): Radeon R9 290 and 390 series > Bonaire (2013~2016): Radeon HD 7790/8870, R7 260/360/450, > RX 455, FirePro W5100, etc. and their mobile variants. > > Why? > > Compared to the old radeon driver, amdgpu offers better > performance, more display features through DC, > as well as support for Vulkan 1.3 through RADV. > (Note, although the hardware is 10 years old, the R9 290 > still appears in the Steam hardware survey for Linux, > albeit at a modest 0.25%.) > > What can these GPUs actually do on amdgpu? > > Hawaii (eg. R9 390X) can even play modern games such as > Baldur's Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077 and gives a decent user > experience considering the age of the hardware. > Bonaire can play games from its era well. > > Looking forward to reviews and feedback! > > ps. After VCE1 support is merged, I would like to also > enable amdgpu by default on SI dGPUs. > > Timur Kristóf (3): > drm/radeon: Refactor how SI and CIK support is determined > drm/amdgpu: Refactor how SI and CIK support is determined > drm/amdgpu: Use amdgpu by default on CIK dedicated GPUs > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 159 ++++++++++++++---------- > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c | 80 +++++++----- > 2 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.51.1 >
