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Bug#780107: marked as done (Please add support for Radeon Kaveri / update the firmware package)

Your message dated Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:42:25 +0100
with message-id <1445197345.31451.86.camel@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: Please add support for Radeon Kaveri / update the firmware package
has caused the Debian Bug report #780107,
regarding Please add support for Radeon Kaveri / update the firmware package
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package: firmware-linux-nonfree
version: 0.43
severity: wishlist

I have here:
|processor       : 3
|vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
|cpu family      : 21
|model           : 48
|model name      : AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G 

|00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] [1002:130f]

and that one ask for the "lower case" firmware:
|[drm] Loading kaveri Microcode
|radeon 0000:00:01.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/kaveri_pfp.bin failed with error -2
|radeon 0000:00:01.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/kaveri_me.bin failed with error -2
|input: HD-Audio Generic Front Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card1/input9
|radeon 0000:00:01.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/kaveri_ce.bin failed with error -2
|radeon 0000:00:01.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/kaveri_mec.bin failed with error -2
|radeon 0000:00:01.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/kaveri_mec2.bin failed with error -2
|cik_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/kaveri_mec2.bin"
|[drm:cik_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
|radeon 0000:00:01.0: Fatal error during GPU init

and without it X won't come up. The console remains working. The lower
case firmware is used in kernel since v3.17-rc1 and provided by the
firmware git tree as of 

|commit f333bd435c0b6745cbc4fae3326725d77bf57c82
|Author: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
|Date:   Wed Aug 20 15:09:50 2014 -0400
|
|    radeon: add updated firmware for radeon GPUs

and updated later in 
|commit 78535e88bfb95e2f50afb6f9e728df0fbec2cddc
|Author: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@amd.com>
|Date:   Mon Dec 22 13:26:44 2014 +0200
|
|    radeon: add updated firmware for kaveri (radeon GPU)

I just installed the firmware from git repo and X comes up.

There is fallback support for some chips but not for Kaveri.

Sebastian

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Version: 0.44

This was done in the above version.

Ben.

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