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AMD Linux Driver Prepares For Radeon RDNA4 "Kicker"
A few new firmware files were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository for supporting a new GFX12.0.1 (RDNA4) 'Kicker' graphics processor
Typically AMD doesn't upstream new firmware files for graphics processors until right around product launch time. It would be very surprising if this is required for the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and only upstreaming now considering how important Linux is to AMD's ROCm/AI efforts. So for the moment it's not clear with this AMD GFX1201 Kicker variant is for, but whatever the case, the firmware files for it are now upstream in the latest linux-firmware.git code and the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver bits have just been merged for Linux 6.17.
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