Question about porting VCE1 to amdgpu

[Christian König]

> - Would we need a different firmware version with a different "hdr" 
> for the amdgpu driver?
Yes, we should probably release the latest one instead of reusing the 
one used with radeon.

BTW: Does VCE work on CIK? Alex, don't we run into the same issue there 
as well?

> - Wouldn't it be better to continue loading the driver while having 
> VCE disabled IF we fail when loading or validating the FW? Completely 
> failing to load the driver for this reason seems overkill IMO, since 
> nothing has been loaded in memory and no registry have been modified 
> up to that point.
UVD and VCE are actually needed for correct power management. When the 
blocks fail to initialize you usually sooner or later run into problems 
with power management (e.g. stuck inside a certain power level).

> - Would it be a good idea to send a patch as a RFC so some of you 
> could help me finish the job and maybe pinpoint where the last 
> modifications need to be done?
Well you could, but to be honest without AMD releasing new firmware that 
is most likely a futile effort.

Regards,
Christian.

Am 14.06.2017 um 18:22 schrieb Alexandre Demers:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on porting VCE1 from radeon to amdgpu in the last 
> few weeks. I'm pretty much done and I've enabled the functionality to 
> see how it goes. However, I ended up with an error on the firmware 
> validation (size doesn't seem to fit), thus failing completely in 
> loading the driver. I'm testing on a R9 280X (Tahiti).
>
> Three questions then:
> - Would we need a different firmware version with a different "hdr" 
> for the amdgpu driver?
> - Wouldn't it be better to continue loading the driver while having 
> VCE disabled IF we fail when loading or validating the FW? Completely 
> failing to load the driver for this reason seems overkill IMO, since 
> nothing has been loaded in memory and no registry have been modified 
> up to that point.
> - Would it be a good idea to send a patch as a RFC so some of you 
> could help me finish the job and maybe pinpoint where the last 
> modifications need to be done?
>
> Thank you!
> Alexandre Demers
>
>
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