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Bug#844605: X11 segfault with AMD GPU since 4.8.x / Firmware issue



Control: reassign -1 firmware-amd-graphics
Control: forcemerge -1 838858

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:04:51 +0100 Patrick Matthäi
<pmatthaei@debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> dmesg reports a firmware missmatch:
[...]
> [    3.262451] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/bonaire_k_smc.bin (-2)
> [    3.262454] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load forradeon/bonaire_k_smc.bin failed with error -2
> [    3.262845] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmwareradeon/BONAIRE_smc.bin
> [    3.262846] ci_fw: mixing new and old firmware!
[...]

Missing firmware isn't a kernel bug, it's a bug in a firmware package.
(And X blowing up is probably an X driver bug.)

The missing firmware is fixed in the latest firmware-nonfree upload.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson

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