amdgpu with 8+ cards for GPU mining?

[Christian König]

Hi Joseph,

> 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
> [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/580] (rev e7) (prog-if 00 
> [VGA controller])
>     Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 3418
>     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
>     Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>     Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 141
>     Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>     Region 2: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
>     Region 4: I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
>     Region 5: Memory at f7800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
>     Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>     Capabilities: <access denied>
Please provide the lspci output as root. Going to work with this for 
now, but I'm not sure if there is everything in there I need.

>     Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
>     Kernel modules: amdgpu
It would be good to get the configuration without amdgpu loaded, e.g. 
what the BIOS programmed for the BARs.

Additional to that please provide the output of "sudo cat /proc/iomem".

Regards,
Christian.

Am 16.02.2018 um 18:11 schrieb Joseph Wang:
> Thanks.
>
> Here are three logs.
>
> failed is the dmesg with 9 cards
> good is the boot with 8 cards
> lspci.log is the pci log with 8 cards
>
> The 9th card is a copy of
>
> 0f:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
> [AMD/ATI] Ellesm
> ere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/580] (rev ef) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 0b31
>
> One other thing is that if I put in 7 or 8 cards, I don't get x11 
> video.  All of the diagnostics
> are the same, but I don't get x11 video, but I can switch to text console.
>
> Also with nine cards, I don't get the grub boot screen.  I get this 
> graphics display, but then
> the boot process seems to work and then it switches to text before the 
> kernel panic.
>
> One final thing is that I'm working with a group of scientists that 
> would like to use ROCm for
> opencl supercomputing, and I'm trying to get resources so that they 
> can do development work.
>