[Bug 111481] AMD Navi GPU frequent freezes on both Manjaro/Ubuntu with kernel 5.3 and mesa 19.2 -git/llvm9

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Thu Nov 14 00:44:12 UTC 2019


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111481

--- Comment #230 from Daniel Suarez <danielsuarez369 at protonmail.com> ---
(In reply to John Smith from comment #225)
> (In reply to Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer from comment #141)
> 
> > For radeonsi the AMD_DEBUG=nodma environment variable is a workaround until
> > we figure out a proper fix.
> 
> Is this seriously what AMD calls "support"? No offense but this is
> ridiculous, this card has been out for four months and it still can't even
> browse firefox reliably, even after these "workarounds" and "patches". 
> 
> Then we waited two months for the drivers to even get properly released, and
> all this wait was for nothing because the drivers are useless, you can't
> even browse firefox or let alone play any actual games. What is the point of
> having open source drivers if they don't even work? Nvidia's GPUs have had
> day one support, and unlike AMD, "support" actually means the GPU works for
> something that is meaningful.

I wouldn't really call what is happening here "support". Really feels like us
Linux users were thrown to the side with little consideration.

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