Radeon 8570 HD R7 240 OEM

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon May 11 14:27:40 PDT 2015


On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Yogi A. Patel <yapatel at gatech.edu> wrote:
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>> On May 12, 2015, at 06:10, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Yogi A. Patel <yapatel at gatech.edu> wrote:
>>> We use a custom RT kernel (using Xenomai).
>>>
>>> You are correct, I do see the support working for the generic kernel. But
>>> when we are in our RT kernel, it doesn't work (lshw doesn't show that the
>>> driver is being used and dmesg has no trace of Radeon ever loading).
>>>
>>> Manually loading at startup also doesn't fix the problem.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
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>> What custom kernel are you using?  Maybe it's too old or missing features.
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>> Alex
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> Linux 3.8.13 patched with Xenomai.

Your kernel is too old.  Initial support for those asics when into
kernel 3.9 IIRC.

Alex


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>>>
>>> Yogi A. Patel
>>> @yapatel525
>>>
>>> On May 11, 2015, at 22:42, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Yogi A. Patel <yapatel at gatech.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there any plan for supporting the Radeon HD 8570/R7 240 OEM card?
>>>
>>>
>>> They have been supported for a while.
>>>
>>> Alex


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