Bonair support Kernel compiling instructions

Christian König deathsimple at vodafone.de
Mon Sep 26 13:38:04 UTC 2016


Am 26.09.2016 um 02:52 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> On 26/09/16 02:55 AM, Striker Leggette wrote:
>> I am running a Lenovo Y700 with an R7 Carrizo APU and an R9 Bonaire GPU
>> on Fedora 24.  At the moment, the latest Fedora Kernel supports amdgpu
>> for the Carrizo, and many things run very well on this.  However, if I
>> run an application on the Bonaire using radeon, I get even less FPS in
>> those same application.
> Which applications are those, and how many FPS do you get in each case?
>
>
>> I would like to know if there are compiling instructions for Vanilla
>> Kernels to enable amdgpu support for the Bonaire at this time.
> As I said to you on IRC before, don't expect amdgpu to magically make
> anything significantly faster.


I agree completely with Michel here, but to answer you original question 
you need to set the appropriate options while compiling your kernel.

Just disable CONFIG_DRM_RADEON and enable CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK.

Regards,
Christian.


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