[Mesa-dev] AMD Tahiti: A question about PFP firmware

[Nicolai Hähnle]

Follow-up question: Could you try to just disable the check and see 
whether the piglit arb_draw_indirect tests work?

Cheers,
Nicolai

On 24.07.2017 19:03, Nicolai Hähnle wrote:
> On 22.07.2017 16:57, Gustaw Smolarczyk wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> While looking at the extension list on my Tahiti GPU (SI) I have found
>> that ARB_draw_parameters is missing. Looking at the code, it requires
>> ME firmware version >= 87 and PFP firmware version >= 121. While the
>> first is satisfied, the second is not [1]. I believe I use the newest
>> TAHITI firmware from the linux-firmware repository [2] (I use the
>> lower-case tahiti_{me,pfp}.bin files). I use the amdgpu kernel driver
>> instead of radeon (not sure if that matters since both of them should
>> use the same firmware files); well, if I didn't the versions would be
>> 0 since only amdgpu winsys queries them.
>>
>> Is there maybe some unreleased firmware file with newer version for my
>> hardware? Or is the check a nice way of saying "if you want hardware
>> accelerated MDI, buy newer hardware"?
>>
>> [1] https://pastebin.com/BpYiJj0Z
>> [2] 
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/radeon 
>>
> 
> Thanks for bringing that up. I don't have the answer right now, but I 
> can follow up internally.
> 
> 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gustaw
>>
>> P.S. I tried to ask on IRC, but I was unable to write a message on
>> #dri-devel channel as it was rejected (using irc.freenode.net). May
>> there be something I was missing?
> 
> No idea about that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicolai
> 
> 
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