[PATCH 000/165] radeon drm-next patches

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Andy Furniss <adf.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:21 AM,  <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
>>>
>>> These are the radeon patches for 3.11.  Some of these patches
>>> are huge so, it might be easier to review things here:
>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=drm-next-3.11-wip
>>
>>
>> Updated branch:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=drm-next-3.11-wip-2
>> Takes into account comments from Jerome a Christian and contains a few
>> DPM fixes.
>
>
> I see there's a 3 now - I tested that (I guess currently it's the same as 2
> anyway).
>
> On my rv790 there are no regressions so far, but whatever I do it stays low.
>

We may need to tweak the scaling parameters a bit to force higher
states more readily.  They are pretty conservative right now.

> echo profile > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method = write error, is
> there a way to go back to manual setting with dpm?

Not yet.  I'm working on an infrastructure to force DPM modes, but
it's not ready yet.

>
> I haven't tried rv670 yet - I couldn't see a new firmware for that, does it
> just not need one?
>

Nope.  6xx and APUs do not require ucode.  only 7xx+ dGPUs.

Alex