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At the risk of pissing people off, I think you may be better served by a distribution that provides a more up-to-date kernel. Debian 12 will give you Linux 6.1
by jchw 2y ago
At the risk of pissing people off, I think you may be better served by a distribution that provides a more up-to-date kernel. Debian 12 will give you Linux 6.1 LTS, which is probably OK if you're using an older Radeon card, but I've heard support for the 7900 XT/X series is a bit dicey and beyond that (e.g. Radeon 890M) non-existent.
If there were improvements on the AMDGPU DRM driver side, you would not see them in Debian any time soon, as the 6.1 LTS kernel will be stuck with roughly whatever shipped January of last year. This is just a shortcoming in the Linux kernel, due to its lack of any kind of stable ABI for drivers.
Of course it is possible this would help nothing or even hurt. My experience running stable (or even newer) kernels has been quite good, though. I run stable or newer across a few devices and run into hiccups not more than once every few years, which is definitely worth it to be able to get new driver improvements years in advance.
(FWIW Debian is not even supported by ROCm[1]... although distros with even older kernels are. But, even if ROCm works, I can't imagine you will get ideal hardware support when running older kernels. I am not sure if ROCm has some workaround for enterprise Linux distributions specifically, but it feels like they must, given how many of their customers in the datacenter are likely to want to use them.)
[1]: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/compatibility/compatibility-matrix.html https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/compatibility/compatibil...
- slavik81 2y ago> I've heard support for the 7900 XT/X series is a bit dicey The firmware-amd-graphics package in stable is too old to properly support RDNA 3. It kind of works, but it is quite buggy. All RDNA 3 users on Debian 12 should be sure to install the kernel and firmware from bookworm-backports. There is full support for RDNA 3 hardware enabled on Debian Testing (both in the drivers and runtime libraries). The Debian ROCm Team intended to backport all the ROCm packages from Testing into Bookworm, but have been held up as LLVM 17 is not available in bookworm-backports (yet?). > FWIW Debian is not even supported by ROCm ROCm does not support Debian, but Debian supports ROCm. Most of the libraries that comprise ROCm have been directly packaged by the distribution.