On 2018-05-13 06:22 AM, Damien Zammit wrote: > Can someone with some AMD gpu hardware expertise please advise whether > forcing cards to continue loading regardless if microcode is missing > will do damage to hardware long term, for the cards supported by > 'radeon' driver? > > I have heard from someone that it might just be for the 3d CP unit only, > which might just disable 3d graphics if the microcode is missing on r600 > and rv770. The drivers fail without the microcode because they can't work without it, it's nothing to do with damaging hardware. > I want to know if it's okay so we can get basic 2D support in libre > kernels where the microcode is deblobbed, even though I know it's > generally not recommended to omit microcode for all kinds of reasons. There is no 2D-only acceleration support in >= R600 hardware anyway. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer
