On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle at gmail.com> wrote: > On 11.04.2017 00:06, Felix Kuehling wrote: >> >> On 17-04-08 04:50 AM, Nicolai Hähnle wrote: >>> >>> On 07.04.2017 22:15, Felix Kuehling wrote: >>>> >>>> Change the wording of the CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK option to indicate >>>> that it's no longer experimental. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com> >>>> --- >>>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig | 9 +++++---- >>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig >>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig >>>> index f3b6df8..029e3fe 100644 >>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig >>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig >>>> @@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ config DRM_AMDGPU_CIK >>>> bool "Enable amdgpu support for CIK parts" >>>> depends on DRM_AMDGPU >>>> help >>>> - Choose this option if you want to enable experimental support >>>> - for CIK asics. >>>> + Choose this option if you want to enable support for CIK asics. >>>> >>>> - CIK is already supported in radeon. CIK support in amdgpu >>>> - is for experimentation and testing. >>>> + If you choose No here, CIK ASICs will be supported by the >>>> + radeon driver, as in previous kernel versions. Depending on >>>> + your choice you will need different user mode (Mesa, X.org) >>>> + drivers to support accelerated graphics on CIK. >>> >>> >>> The last part is a bit misleading: while you do need different DDXes, >>> the same Mesa driver (radeonsi) will work with both the radeon and the >>> amdgpu kernel module for CIK. FWIW, the same is true for SI, although >>> older versions of Mesa might stumble when run on the amdgpu kernel >>> module. >> >> >> I see. Do you know the minimum Mesa version required for SI and CIK >> support on amdgpu respectively? > > > For SI, it's Mesa 17.0. > > For CIK, I kind of suspect the support has "always" been there, since the > amdgpu kernel module was originally brought up on CIK, but maybe Marek knows > more. Yes, CIK Mesa support should work with all amdgpu versions. Marek
