On 02/06/2017 04:20 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 06 Feb 2017 21:39:08 jdm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just followed the amdgpu wiki guide to get my new graphics card up and
>> running. Excellent wiki guide and had no issues. Now running with
>> shiny graphics and throwing all that Steam has to offer at it.
>>
>> Many Thanks to the wiki authors.
>>
>> Will we always have to include binary blobs into the kernel for AMD
>> cards? This feels kind of odd for me so wondering if this will be
>> included as a package or a kernel driver at some point or what the
>> future direction is for AMD graphics with Linux.
>>
>> It may not be alien but not done this before so curious.
>>
>> John
> Invariably all modern CPUs, video cards, NICs, etc. are shipped with firmware
> which are usually emerged with sys-kernel/linux-firmware (or manually) and
> then loaded with an initrd, or by building them in the kernel. Regarding
> AMDGPUs please note the Wiki strings of firmware blobs are not 100% correct.
> I noticed dmesg was complaining about missing blobs on a Kaveri APU although
> I
> had all the complete Kaveri string included in the kernel. I had to add:
>
> radeon/bonaire_uvd.bin radeon/BONAIRE_uvd.bin radeon/BONAIRE_vce.bin
>
> to keep it happy.
>
> BTW, for AMDGPUs you will also need to add CPU microcode blob strings.
Please explain : "BTW, for AMDGPUs you will also need to add CPU
microcode blob strings."
