drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

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On 09/10/2018 14:33, Johannes Lundberg wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Let me know if you manage to get GPU processing working. I haven't 
> explored the option so much but from what I've seen so far, there 
> doesn't seem to be much GPU work available for *nix systems. I'm also on 
> WCG.

Hi,

OK the error message for missing firmware has gone from the X.org.0.log 
but I see "could not load firmware image" in /var/log/messages and 
unfortunately the GPU still isn't available to crunch from boincmgr:

Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_pfp.bin: could not load 
firmware image, error 2
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_me.bin: could not load 
firmware image, error 2
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_ce.bin: could not load 
firmware image, error 2
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_rlc.bin: could not load 
firmware image, error 2
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_mec.bin: could not load 
firmware image, error 2
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_mec2.bin: could not load 
firmware image, error 2
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: drmn0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu 
addr 0x0000000200000008, cpu addr 0x0xfffff8002f4f1008

[snip]

Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: drmn0: fence driver on ring 9 use gpu 
addr 0x0000000200000098, cpu addr 0x0xfffff8002f4f1098
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: i_size_write unimplemented
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_sdma.bin: could not load 
firmware image, error 2
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_sdma1.bin: could not 
load firmware image, error 2
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: drmn0: fence driver on ring 10 use gpu 
addr 0x00000002000000a8, cpu addr 0x0xfffff8002f4f10a8
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: i_size_write unimplemented
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: drmn0: fence driver on ring 11 use gpu 
addr 0x00000002000000b8, cpu addr 0x0xfffff8002f4f10b8
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: i_size_write unimplemented
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu/polaris10_uvd.bin: could not load 
firmware image, error 2

[etc]

and then this:

Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu: [powerplay] [AVFS] Something is 
broken. See log!

Unfortunately it doesn't say which log.

[snip]

Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu: [powerplay] Can't find requested 
voltage id in vdd_dep_on_sclk table!
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: amdgpu: [powerplay] VDDCI is larger than 
max VDDCI in VDDCI Voltage Table!
Oct  8 22:51:08 asrock kernel: [drm] ring test on 1 succeeded in 25 usecs

[snip]

>> PS. A tip for not having your custom Linux-enabled boinc-client pkg 
>> overwritten every time you run pkg upgrade, do 'pkg lock boinc-client' :)

I build/update from ports, partly because of things like that ;)
-- 
J.