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Patches For AMD GPUs On Loongson Point To "Massive Platform Bug" For These Chinese CPUs


A set of patches were posted on Monday in aiming to get aging AMD Radeon GFX7/GFX8 era graphics processors working on Loongson LoongArch platforms

A set of patches were posted on Monday in aiming to get aging AMD Radeon GFX7/GFX8 era graphics processors working on Loongson LoongArch platforms. The ensuing back and forth developer conversation on the mailing list led longtime AMD Linux engineer Christian König to sum things up as:"Well then you have a massive platform bug. Further pointing to the fragile state of Loongson hardware are also other talked about workarounds like dropping the PCIe link speed from x16 to x8, tweaking the power management, or even upgrading the heatsink of the chipset.

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