AMDKFD Preps More Carrizo/Kaveri Code For Linux 4.15 While dGPU Lags

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDKFD Preps More Carrizo/Kaveri Code For Linux 4.15 While dGPU Lags

The AMDKFD kernel driver that is a component of HSA support on Linux for Radeon GPUs is seeing more upstreaming work in Linux 4.15, but only for older APUs...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDKFD-Linux-4.15-Changes

[boxie]

sweet - gonna have a whole lot of AMD backed OSS stuff landing in the rather near future, I am hoping the 18.04 LTS will just have everything working by default!

[starshipeleven]

my Lenovo 310 (A10-9600P Carrizo APU) likes this, it hopes these patches fix the hybernation issues (can't hybernate unless I use "nomodeset" kernel parameter)

[Adarion]

my Lenovo 310 (A10-9600P Carrizo APU) likes this, it hopes these patches fix the hybernation issues (can't hybernate unless I use "nomodeset" kernel parameter)

> Yong Zhao
> Reorganize kfd resume code
> Fix suspend/resume issue on Carrizo v2

Looks like there is work done in that direction.

[chithanh]

Hibernate with amdgpu is pretty buggy, even if you don't use amdkfd.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92836

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100979

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1064114.html