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AMD Sends In A Variety Of Graphics Driver Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle

([Radeon] 6 Hours Ago AMDGPU For Linux 7.0)


This week's batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD changes queued up ahead of the next kernel merge window is focused on delivering a variety of driver fixes.

Already queued up in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window is [1]new RDNA 3.5 and RDNA4 GFX12.1 hardware IP blocks being enabled , [2]improved support for DP-HDMI dongles , and [3]a variety of other improvements . This week's round of AMDGPU/AMDFD material heading to DRM-Next is focused on fixes.

There are fixes for RDNA4 (GC 12), user-queue handling. IP discovery fixes, HDMI fixes, VCN queue reset fixes, and a variety of other fixes with being late in the v6.19 kernel cycle with the v6.20~7.0 merge window fast approaching:

amdgpu:

- GC 12 fix

- UserQ fixes

- Misc error path fixes

- IP discovery fixes

- Misc cleanups

- HDMI fixes

- Documentation update

- Panel replay fixes

- Panel type handling fixes

- DCN 3.1.x fixes

- DC analog display fix

- SMU 6 fixes

- VCN 4.0.3 queue reset fix

- VCN 5.0.1 queue reset fix

- GPUVM TLB flush fix

- RAS fixes

- DC idle optimization fix

amdkfd:

- MQD fix for GC 9.4.3 and 9.5

- GC 11 cooperative launch fix

- GC 12.1 trap handler fixes

- Misc cleanups

radeon:

- Use drm_* logging helpers for VCE

See [4]this pull request for the full list of patches as part of this week's AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull.

Meanwhile this week for the current Linux 6.19 kernel cycle was [5]an important regression revert to workaround several recent bug reports.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-GC-12.1-Linux-6.20

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DP-HDMI-Dongle-340MHz

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-PR-Linux-7.0-Dongle

[4] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20260123173537.17221-1-alexander.deucher@amd.com/

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-6.19-Regressions



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