(Cc-ing involved people) On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 17:34 Brüns, Stefan wrote:
Leap 15.0 got some blaming in a well known and regarded german computer magazine due to the "outdated" kernel/graphics stack [1].
As far as I can see in [2], there were some updates, but it lacks support for VegaM (Intel CPU + AMD iGPU, already available), Vega12 (Marketing name: Radeon Pro Vega 16/20, e.g newest Macbook Pro) and Vega 20 (Radeon Instinct MI50/60) and the Raven APUs (Ryzen 3/5 2xxxG).
Even Vega56/64 is still guarded by the module parameter amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1.
Are there plans to also get these included until the release?
For the record: we don't have an openSUSE-15.1 branch yet so what is in 15.1 snapshots at the moment is most likely a copy of 15.0 kernel. There is going to be a DRM backport for SLE15-SP1 but AFAIK it's not in the branch yet. But I don't know which hardware is going to be supported, maybe Thomas or Petr could provide more details. Michal
Kind regards, and keep up the good work,
Stefan
[1] Sorry - subscription only: https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2018-14-OpenSuse-Leap-15-0-mit-weitere m-Update-Mechanismus-4085811.html --- DE: Leap unterstützt moderne Hardware aber trotzdem schlechter als frischer ausgestattete Distributionen. So hat gerade der für moderne Radeon-Grafikchips zuständige Kernel-Treiber Amdgpu im letzten Jahr massive Fortschritte gemacht, die Leap fehlen. Die Distribution weiß daher nichts mit AMDs aktuellen High- End-GPUs der Vega-Serie anzufangen; bei vielen Radeon-Modellen der 400er- und 500er-Serie fehlen für besonders hochauflösende Displays und die Audio-Ausgabe wichtige Treiberfunktionen. --- EN: Leap supports modern hardware but still worse than freshly equipped distributions. For example, the kernel driver Amdgpu, which is responsible for modern Radeon graphics chips, has made massive progress over the last year, which Leap lacks. The distribution therefore does not know how to handle AMD's current high-end Vega series GPUs; Many Radeon models of the 400 and 500 series lack important driver functions for particularly high-resolution displays and the audio output. ---
[2] https://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel/log/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgp u? h=SLE15-SP1
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