Enabling AMDGPU by default for SI & CIK

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 4:38 AM Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>
> On 2020-08-03 1:45 a.m., Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Now that we have recently made some progress on getting feature parity
> > with the Radeon driver for SI, I'm wondering what it would take to
> > make AMDGPU the default driver for these generations.
> >
> > As far as I understand AMDGPU has had these features for CIK for a
> > while already but it is still not the default driver. What would it
> > take to make it the default? What is missing and/or broken?
>
> The main blockers I'm aware of for CIK are:
>
> 1) Lack of analogue connector support with DC
> 2) Lack of HDMI/DP audio support without DC
>
>
> 1) may apply to SI as well.

Also, IIRC, there are suspend and resume problems with some CIK parts
using amdgpu.

Alex