Hi, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2020-05-31 12:16 a.m., Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes: >>> >>> I believe the latest AMD *GPUs* won't work with Debian 10, >>> though. They require both new firmware and kernel driver changes >>> (and possibly user-space driver changes, but I don't know). >> >> For AMD Navi, Mesa 19.2 (released sept 2019) is the oldest usable >> version. Imho it's time we provide a "hardware enablement" >> backport of the graphics stack, not only for users, but also to >> thank AMD for their new phase of GPL-friendly driver development. >> >> This will also require a backport of llvm-10-toolchain. > > FWIW, Navi GPUs can work with LLVM 9. > Noted :-) I didn't realise this, and have two biases: 1) no-change backports of pkgs are strongly preferred, and Mesa in testing uses LLVM 10. 2) an irony-mode (clang-powered Emacs mode for C, C++, and Obj-C) user filed an upstream issue requesting clang-10 support in the Debian package. > >> The only thing I'm not sure about is if additional Xorg components >> would additionally need to be backported. > > None, but kernel 5.6 or newer is required for Navi 14 (RX 5500). > Thank you for confirming this! So it looks like the main blocker at this time is #952710 "firmware-amd-graphics: AMD Navi GPU doesn't work". Best, Nicholas
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