AMD 12.04.4 LTS Sea Islands GPU Support

[David Harmon]

AMD feature request to backport Sea Island GPU generation driver from 3.11 kernel to 12.04.x for Kyoto & Berlin APU support.

Relevant PCI'ID's in for Sea Islands:

Bonaire/Saturn:
0x6640
0x6641
0x6649
0x6650
0x6651
0x6658
0x665c

Kabini/Temash:
0x9830
0x9831
0x9832
0x9833
0x9834
0x9835
0x9836
0x9837
0x9838
0x9839
0x983a
0x983b
0x983c
0x983d
0x983e
0x983f

Oland/Mars:
0x6600
0x6601
0x6602
0x6603
0x6606
0x6607
0x6610
0x6611
0x6613
0x6620
0x6621
0x6623
0x6632

Hainan/Sun:
0x6660
0x6663
0x6664
0x6665
0x6667
0x666f

[Tim Writer (tim-writer)]

One more for Bonaire/Saturn:
0x665d

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

Making public because the PCI IDs are no longer secret.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1203127

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

In addition to the base support of Sea Islands hardware, AMD would like Canonical to include dynamic power management for this card for 13.10. Though not necessarily have it on by default.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

In addition to what was already merged we should also include the following pull requests:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-July/042480.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-July/042561.html

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

also merged in the drm-fixes branch:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/log/?h=drm-fixes

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

here's the firmware page:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

From linus' -rc5 mail:

> There really doesn't seem to be anything major here. The radeon
> changes are likely the most noticeable, but many of them are for the
> dynamic power management that is still off by default..

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1308.1/01817.html

[Alex Deucher (alexander-deucher)]

Missing a bonaire pci id: 0x665d