On 3/9/21 5:31 PM, maximilian attems wrote: > >> the display stopped updating as soon as amdgpu took over, and it never came >> back. >> The firmware is needed of course, and as a side note, it could be nice if >> the kernel could fail more gracefully, somehow bringing the display back (it >> works fine with amdgpu blacklisted, just no acceleration) such that it takes >> me less than two days to figure it all out. > this is a linux bug, you might want to submit it upstream to AMD guys.
Yea, I actually wasn't sure if this would be regarded as such, thanks for the encouragement. I'll look that up. >> The relevant files are amdgpu/green_sardine_* > right, they only got pushed upstream in linux-firmware git on 11/2/2021 > after the latest 20210208 release, hence unfortunately they miss out the > next debian release > https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html > > They will land in the next upstream release upload of 202103XX to > experimental, backports and then after bullseye release to unstable > (plus next testing). > I sure hope it would also end up in some point release? Or maybe a freeze exception could be made? It would be unfortunate if a new computer won't be usable (without backports) on stable Debian which is to be finally released presumably several months after the computer hit the market, for want of a rather minor fix.
