Hi Bero,
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 15:25, Bero Rosenkränzer Bernhard.Rosenkranzer@linaro.org wrote: ...
This is bad for the ARM ecosystem, since it is the only driver we have for NVIDIA hardware, and it has fewer issues than AMD GPU drivers + hardware running on ARM systenms.
What's the problem with AMD GPU drivers on ARM? Just missing workarounds for things like the SynQuacer PCIE bug? On x86, AMD drivers tend to work better than NVIDIA, so maybe the simple (and acceptable, given NVIDIA refuses to join) fix would be improving AMD drivers and telling NVIDIA to go to hell...
AMD gfx cards produce lots of visual corruption under Linux on all of the arm64 boards I tried (including Seattle which has properly working PCIe), and I have never managed to get anyone interested in looking into it (although I didn't try /that/ hard tbh)
It can be addressed by setting the 'ignore-gpu-blacklist' option, but this requires an explicit action from the user, which is unfortunate and undesirable.
Is there any way we can influence this?
We can probably get some Distros to patch it out -- but they will (and should) be reluctant while there's a good chance it fixes a real problem...
I am not saying they should patch it out. I am just asking aloud whether we think we have a stake in this, and whether we can contribute to a solution in any way.