On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 03:19:23AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 16:06 +0100, Ferdinand Pöll wrote: > > Package: linux-image-4.9.0-rc8-amd64-unsigned > > Version: 4.9~rc8-1~exp1 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I have an AMD Radeon R9 270X and I'd like to use the new amdgpu driver with it. > > Since 4.9, linux includes experimental support for GCN 1.0 VGAs, but it's not > > enabled in the debian builds as well as the support for GCN 1.1 cards (which > > isn't new in the kernel anymore). In the kernel build config, you just need to > > set CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_SI=Y (for GCN1.0-based cards) and CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK=Y > > (for GCN1.1-based cards). To use amdgpu if it is built into the kernel with the > > old gpus users just need to blacklist radeon and upon the next reboot linux > > will load amdgpu and users can install amdgpu-pro if they want to or just stick > > with the newest free graphics driver. > > I don't think this will work the way you expect. kmod will load both > modules unless one of them is blacklisted, and it's not documented > which one will be tried first. So we could end up loading amdgpu on > systems that should still be using radeon by default. > > We could perhaps patch amdgpu so that it isn't auto-loaded for the GCN > 1.0 GPUs. But I'm not yet convinced this is worth doing. > > Ben. > Hi Ben, upstream has landed a solution for this issue in 4.13 which doesn't require blacklisting radeon anymore [1]. Please consider setting CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_SI=Y and CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK=Y to allow the optional usage of amdgpu on GCN1.0 and GCN1.1 based cards [2]. The default driver will be still radeon but users who want to use amdgpu can choose amdgpu by providing the following kernel parameters for GCN1.0 cards: radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 and for GCN1.1 cards: radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1 Thanks, Andreas [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?id=2b059658d6796a096ef06be9da994d6c44401d5b [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig?h=v4.13
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