Missing amdgpu firmware files

[Deucher, Alexander]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koenig, Christian
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 11:48 AM
> To: Seth Forshee; Deucher, Alexander; Oded Gabbay
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: Missing amdgpu firmware files
> 
> Well that's strange. Essentially those are just duplicates to the
> existing files and the driver should fallback to them.
> 
> IIRC the radeon/*_sdma1.bin files are only requested when you try to use
> CIK support with amdgpu which isn't a good idea in a production
> environment.
> 
> What's the link for the bug reports? It's most likely just people trying
> to use the driver with hardware which it isn't supposed to be used with.
> 
> We probably should either remove CIK support totally from the amdgpu or
> add all the files to the firmware repository.

Exactly.  They are only used if you forcibly enable CIK support in amdgpu which is just for testing.  CIK is already supported in radeon and that should be used for CIK parts.  Sdma1 is identical to regular sdma file so you can just symlink them or copy them.  I guess I can update the firmware tree.

Alex


> 
> Regards,
> Christian.
> 
> On 27.10.2015 16:42, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > I've received reports from Ubuntu users about missing amdgpu firmware
> > files with 4.2 kernels. The driver calls out a number of
> > radeon/*_sdma1.bin files that are not present in the linux-firmware git
> > repo. Are these files available anywhere (under a license that allows
> > redistribution), and will they be pushed up to linux-firmware anytime
> > soon?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Seth
> >