Hi Bero, On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 15:25, Bero Rosenkränzer <bernhard.rosenkran...@linaro.org> wrote: ... > > > This is bad for the ARM ecosystem, since it is the > > only driver we have for NVIDIA hardware, and it has fewer issues than > > AMD GPU drivers + hardware running on ARM systenms. > > What's the problem with AMD GPU drivers on ARM? Just missing > workarounds for things like the SynQuacer PCIE bug? > On x86, AMD drivers tend to work better than NVIDIA, so maybe the > simple (and acceptable, given NVIDIA refuses to join) fix would be > improving AMD drivers and telling NVIDIA to go to hell... >
AMD gfx cards produce lots of visual corruption under Linux on all of the arm64 boards I tried (including Seattle which has properly working PCIe), and I have never managed to get anyone interested in looking into it (although I didn't try /that/ hard tbh) > > It can be addressed by setting the 'ignore-gpu-blacklist' option, but > > this requires an explicit action from the user, which is unfortunate > > and undesirable. > > > > Is there any way we can influence this? > > We can probably get some Distros to patch it out -- but they will (and > should) be reluctant while there's a good chance it fixes a real > problem... > I am not saying they should patch it out. I am just asking aloud whether we think we have a stake in this, and whether we can contribute to a solution in any way. _______________________________________________ cross-distro mailing list cross-distro@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-distro
