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[M-Bab]

This isn't a real issue. It is just there to inform interested people about pushed updates. I will add an entry on each pushed major update.

Please do not comment to this issue.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.9.50+, 4.12.13+, 4.12.13+_UBUNTU
Updated firmware package with Raven binaries.
Updated README.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.9.51+, 4.12.14+, 4.12.14+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.9.53+, 4.13.5+, 4.13.5+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.9.55+, 4.13.6+, 4.13.6+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.9.59+, 4.13.10+, 4.13.10+_UBUNTU
Updated firmware binaries.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.14.0+ and 4.14.0+_Ubuntu
Kernel 4.9 is removed because 4.14 is the next longterm support (LTS) kernel.
Caution: Issues when re-activating the screen from standby or after screen lock can still occur. I have kind of given up on the issue - I could find nothing that helps the AMD developers to resolve the issue.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.15+ and 4.15+_Ubuntu
These are pre-release kernels but amd-staging-drm-next jumped to 4.15 so I had to follow. At least it should resolve the standby issues.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.15.0-rc4+, 4.15.0-rc4+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.15.0-rc5+, 4.15.0-rc5+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.15.0-rc6+, 4.15.0-rc6+_UBUNTU
Happy New Year!

[ghost]

Thanks Martin. Running it now without issue on Mint 18.3, Compiz enabled. Amd Radeon R6 Carrizo w/ Vulkan. Thanks for your work, and Happy New Year! ​ ​ ​

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[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.15.0-rc8+, 4.15.0-rc8+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.15.1+, 4.15.1+_UBUNTU

Little delay I was pretty busy. So 4.15 is officially out and includes DAL hooray! Now you can also get your kernel with sound from more official sources like: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D

Why did I still build this one and why it might (depends on the case) still be worth to install it?

1. This kernel has the Ubuntu additions from unstable in contrast to the e.g. mainline kernel.
2. The amdgpu code is way newer than in 4.15. Concerning the amd driver it is rather a 4.16 kernel already. DAL version 3.1.32 vs 3.1.07.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.15.4+, 4.15.4+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Kernel 4.16 based on amd-staging-drm-next (vanilla and Ubuntu) replaces 4.15.
VBlank crash after screen lock is finally fixed. Screen locking can still result in an unresponsive system or screen flickering.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.16.0-rc7+, 4.16.0-rc7+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.16.0, 4.16.0_UBUNTU Release versions.
Updated firmware package (Vega12, Vega20).

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.16.2+, 4.16.2+_UBUNTU
Flickering not fixed unfortunately.

[M-Bab]

Rebuild 4.16.2+ just to get rid of the flickering.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernels 4.16.3+, 4.16.3+_UBUNTU

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 4.16.15+

[M-Bab]

Kernel 4.18 based on amd-staging-drm-next (vanilla and Ubuntu) replaces 4.17.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 4.18.0 RELEASE

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 4.18.5

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 4.18.8, updated firmware binaries.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 4.19.1

[M-Bab]

After a long break: Updated to kernel 5.0-rc4

[AndreaBorgia-Abo]

5.0-rc6 was pushed by Martin 12 days ago, self-notifying after the fact :)

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 5.0-rc8.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 5.0, updated firmware binaries package.

[stuaxo]

Can us AMD users crowdsource an AMD focused kernel dev ? I don't see AMD doing enough to fix things that have been broken for years in Ryzen.

[M-Bab]

No idea. Usually the AMD open source team was pretty strong and active. No idea what is happening now. So far their usual repository feels somehow abandoned since almost 2 months.

I hope they will pick it up again.

[stuaxo]

Just airing a bit of frustration, certainly things are a lot better than they were.. a lot of my issues seem to be down to HPs broken bios. I have a laptop with a Ryzen 2500u that is pretty OK (but still with the odd freeze here and there). One with a 3700u that is unused rn because things were such a mess (very very broken bios), that I'm leaving it for a while to see if some of the fixes for the broken bios end up upstream.

[JoneKone]

Nice :) thx

[M-Bab]

Finally after quite a while I simply asked the AMD developers and they actually moved their repo (to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/tree/amd-staging-drm-next ). The other repo was indeed abandoned.

So here we go. Kernel 5.11 based amd-staging-drm-next. The firmware files are also really outdated - maybe on the weekend I have time to collect all the neat little blobs together. As always: Use at your own risk.

[stuaxo]

Oh wow, fantastic news :)

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 5.11.8. Updated firmware binaries.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 5.11.15. Updated firmware binaries.

Completely started from scratch because the previous kernel had graphic artifacts. Testing this one so far it looks fixed. Also updated the firmware binaries with ROCM blobs - so there are less warnings when this kernel is installed. And maybe someone actually wants to use this for open compute stuff.

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 5.11.18.

[stuaxo]

Alright, it's not out yet, but looks like 5.15 will finally do temperature reporting for Zen 2 / 3 APUs via k10temp with much qudos to Mario Limonciello.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-HWMON

[M-Bab]

Its been a while ...
Updated to kernel 5.13.18

@stuaxo I assume, although the kernel provides the newest AMD GPU features, such CPU features will arrive as slowly as for all other kernels ...

[M-Bab]

Updated to kernel 5.13.19

5.13 is end-of-life but amd-staging-drm-next is still on this version.

[JoneKone]

seems to be updated to 5.16

[JoneKone]

I'm little bit afraid to ask this.. Are you still alive?

[M-Bab]

I am 😄

I did try to build 5.16 - but it did not build very well. Lots of merge conflicts - resolved them wrong it seems. Will try another round when I am back from vacation.

And also bad: Ubuntu abandoned their ubuntu-unstable repo where I could get all the Ubuntu modifications for each kernel versions. Now they only support the kernels they actually have in a distro (kind of makes sense, but bad for me). So probably the 5.16 kernel will not be available in Ubuntu flavor ...

[JoneKone]

:I uh oh, i have ubuntu :) have a nice vacation..

[stuaxo]

What a pain - onwards and upwards, hope the vacation is good.

[Mr-Precise]

I was able to build the 5.16 kernel, but it causes the graphics card to freeze for unknown reasons
(HD 7750)

[M-Bab]

Update

My latest tries to build a mixed up kernel from the AMD code (and official linux kernel code and Ubuntu sauce) did not work well. There are massive merge conflicts and build errors which I dont have the time to figure out. But the reason for that is also kind of good news: The development in the official kernels is almost on-par with the latest AMD kernel developments.

I started this kernel because back in the days users didn't even have HDMI sound via AMD graphics card without such a special kernel. Things have improved a lot till then. The amdgpu dc code is merged for several years now and the software development there is so fast you usually get release day support for their new GPUs.

In short: This kernel is not really necessary anymore. I am not using it anymore either. I will shut these two repos down. Thanks to all users!

[themoonisacheese]

Nice job while you were there to help.

I'm a bit surprised that you say support is now release day because I had to use this no earlier than September on a 5600G. That said, installing Ubuntu in place of Debian fixed it as well. Godspeed

[FlorianMittag]

Thanks for the work you put into this. Without your kernel my work notebook made all sorts of problems.

Godspeed and please know that some people are really grateful for your time and effort you put into this.

[JoneKone]

Thank you :)

[stuaxo]

Thanks for all the work over the years keeping two successive laptops of mine working, it has been much appreciated.

[JoneKone]

Well umm so, there is this weird project going on. https://forum.level1techs.com/t/mi25-stable-diffusions-100-hidden-beast/194172 aand couldn't help but notice that weirdly specific kernel versions seem to match. to your "old" project.

[stuaxo]

I know people used this repo for various different issues - one issue I had was my laptop not coming back from suspend.
amdgpu / kernel devs Mario Limonciello, Felix Kuehling and Aaron Liu helped me submit enough info that it will be mostly fixed in 6.4.

More info -

The issue:
On an HP x360 with Ryzen 3700u: On returning from suspend the screen would be glitched or black, and I'd have to hard reset.

We found that fixes behaved differently depending on where the laptop gets power from (YMMV), the fix doesn't help if the laptop is powered by AC, but via USBC from a monitor or battery it now wakes up almost every time.

If you are having similar issues it may be worth building this kernel and testing.

Issue
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2449

Quick thread
https://twitter.com/stu_axon/status/1648660362571464704

[M-Bab]

Pretty exciting there is still occasional news to this. And I am not even on Ubuntu anymore which means it would be even harder for me to build this kernel 😅