Missing amdgpu firmware files

[Seth Forshee]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 04:47:53PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> 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.

There have been a few reports that the firmware is missing, but only one
I see where the user actually reports any display problems.

 http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510405

Of course it's possible that he is jumping to conclusions about the
missing firmware files causing his display issues.

Thanks,
Seth