[Bug 98505] [radeon, amdgpu] Regression introduced in 4.8-rc3

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98505

--- Comment #29 from Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Peter Wu from comment #23)
> Alex, I don't think that the minimum date should change in 4.8 (and 4.9?)
> due to the risk of breakage since it is not just limited to amdgpu/radeon.
> Another concern is that while the year seems a good heuristic, it does not
> match the checks that Windows 8 performs (which may or may not be an issue):
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/bringup/firmware-
> requirements-for-d3cold

I agree that using the date is probably not a good idea, but it's what we have
now.  Adjusting the date seems lower impact than changing the policy for these
kernels.

> 
> I'll bring this up with linux-pci developers after the weekend. Should I
> proceed with proposing workaround amdgpu/radeon patches?

Sounds good.  I generally don't like hacking around this in the driver, but I
guess it's better than nothing at this point.  Thanks for your help with this.

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