On 25/09/17 01:40 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga > <luya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 25/09/17 04:51 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga <luya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> Disclaimer: I am not a coder, just a graphic designer looking to improve >>> the entire AMD GCN cards from an AMD power laptop. >>> After seeing the improvement done on AMD support from the past years, one >>> step is missing, enable amdgpu module as default for all GCN cards including >>> South Island and Sea Island. >>> A Fedora contributor provided a special kernel with these support. It >>> will be nice if that was applied on the mainline Fedora kernel to enhance >>> AMD hardware for their user. >>> >>> Taking initiative, I set a draft wiki on >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Luya/Changes/amdgpu_default_for_GCN_cards >>> >>> Idea was inspired by this comment: >>> https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/978664-nouveau-developers-remain-blocked-by-nvidia-from-advancing-open-source-driver?p=978746#post978746 >>> >>> P.S: OpenCL was in considering with the ROCm project but that is another >>> story. >>> >>> Luya >> >> Hi, I belive there are known issues when using amdgpu kernel driver with >> older GCN cards. Both performance wise and feature wise. You should best >> talk to Fedora kernel graphics team about this - I believe Dave Airlie and >> Adam Jackson are the right contact people here. >> >> Thanks Kamil. Is fedora-kernel mailing list the right channel of contact? >> >> Also, is this something that should be configured on distro level? I'd >> assume that AMD kernel developers could switch the older cards to amdgpu by >> default any time they wanted, once they consider the support good enough. >> That's why it is currently hidden behind an experiemental kernel cmdline >> switch. I'm not clear whether distribution level override is in order there. >> >> So far, Sea Island cards are enabled by default from kernel 4.13.x while >> only the old GCN cards (South Island) are the last to remain experimental. >> Fortunately, the latter is improving quicker. Distribution override has been >> done before in the past to gather data for fixing issues (kdbus came in >> mind). After all, Fedora is about pushing new and improved technologies >> hence test days. > I would phrase that last part as "Fedora makes it easier for people to > work on new and improved technologies". We don't randomly experiment > without people lined up to help drive the work. > > josh Cheers! -- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx W: http://www.coolest-storm.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
