On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 04:10:33PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Seth Forshee [mailto:seth.forshee at canonical.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 12:06 PM > > To: Koenig, Christian > > Cc: Deucher, Alexander; Oded Gabbay; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org > > Subject: Re: Missing amdgpu firmware files > > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 04:47:53PM +0100, Christian König wrote: > > > Well that's strange. Essentially those are just duplicates to the > > > existing files and the driver should fallback to them. > > > > > > IIRC the radeon/*_sdma1.bin files are only requested when you try to > > > use CIK support with amdgpu which isn't a good idea in a production > > > environment. > > > > > > What's the link for the bug reports? It's most likely just people > > > trying to use the driver with hardware which it isn't supposed to be > > > used with. > > > > There have been a few reports that the firmware is missing, but only one > > I see where the user actually reports any display problems. > > > > http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510405 > > > > Of course it's possible that he is jumping to conclusions about the > > missing firmware files causing his display issues. > > The driver refuses to load if the firmware is missing. However, as Christian > mentioned, you will only get those messages if you've enabled CIK support > amdgpu which we don't recommend (controlled by CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK). > Radeon does not require the additional firmware.
Got it, thanks. I'll disable it. Seth
