That message is from Daniel Vetter. He merely "ack'ed" the request, that is, he voted approval for merging. A pull request (a request to merge code) requires a certain number of votes to merge.

The person who approves the request in the end is David Airlie. He is the maintainer of the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management) subsystem of the Linux Kernel and answers to Linus Torvalds (the overall kernel maintainer), so it may be that he finds an issue with the code and vetos.

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And yes some of the files are utterly horrible to read and not anything close to kernel coding style standards. But that's the point, they're essentially gospel from hw engineers that happens to be parseable by gcc.

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Oh finally ! Been looking for this for my full AMD build

Awesome. AMD has really been kicking some ass on the Linux side. I don't regret switching to AMD back in 2013 at all. Linux was 100% why I switched -- NVidia had always been PITA and AMDGPU was becoming a thing...gambled AMDGPU would eventually kick ass and it does. I've been very impressed and very happy with AMD on Linux. Thank You and Good Job AMD.

Now all I need is the RX 580 (or a 470 or higher with 8GB since I'm getting desperate) to drop to at least MSRP so I can upgrade my R7 260X.

I refuse to pay $309 for a card that sold for $229 a few months back....or last year's card for $339....especially when I try not to go over $250 on any individual component of a PC.

On one hand, the high prices means the by the time I can afford a new gpu, its drivers will be more matured when I boot into Arch Linux; on the other hand, I'm currently unable to play PUBG or any other relatively new game at 1080p with the lowest settings. At least old games are cheap :P

Yeah same here.. will GPU prices EVER go down? It seems like forever that they've been insane..

The cheapest fcking 570 I can find in greece is 300 euros, that's half our minimum wage (which most people make minimum wage in greece).. it's bonkers..

Meanwhile a year or so ago I could have bought a god damn 1070! for 330 euros from the same store.

Also pubg is one of the worst optimized games of all time that have so many players playing it, I have a friend with a 6700K and a 1080 and PUBG is a stuttery low fps mess..

Kinda regretting buying my 1060 laptop now, would've loved to have an AMD setup with how much they're pushing for Linux and open source lately.

Hopefully increased competition lights a fire under Nvidia. The developers they (Nvidia) have seen to genuinely care but with limited manpower you can only do so much.

AMD has been kicking ass on Linux because AMD-GPU got in the kernel, and just with that Mesa developers where able to see it's code and have a better understanding of how to make open source drivers with AMD cards.

If this gets in, man! AMD drivers are going to rock on Linux.

AMD has really been kicking some ass on the Linux side.

They need to. Much of the compute market that they're heavily catering to runs on Linux.

It's happening guys! :P

Fantastic news. Can't wait for my next thread-ripper + navi build

Yeihh! We are finally getting Freesync on Linux!

Just to clarify, please see my post in r/gaming

To be clear, freesync still isn't an out-of-the-box solution currently for this pull request. That's something that's being looked at intently, but it needs to be an upstreamable solution so we'd need and want to work with the community on this going forward.

With so much progress, there are obviously some serious resources behind this effort, so why not add another dozen lines of code and fix the hugely impactful and low-hanging fruit like broken fan control (always on), which makes AMD-on-Linux experience so bbbzzzzz-z-z-z-z-z-zzzz or force users to use contraptions to get this to work.

Also, why the hell do you even need any driver support for controlling the fan? Why not have temp<->fan feedback built into the chip?

because every aib partner has different fan stuff.

Took them long enough.

SUGOI!!!!!!!!!!!!