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. The kernel in my system info below is built from source with the options mentioned above enabled. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-rc8 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
