On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Michael Catanzaro
<mike.catanzaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:52 AM, Tomasz Torcz
<tomek(a)pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
>
> The same upstream which did not release stable version of Xorg Intel
> driver
> for past three years? ;-)
> According to the link, the firmwares are needed for HDMI audio, which is
> quite critical functionality. HDMI audio for older chipsets did not
> require binary blobs, so this is kind of regression.
We should push back very hard against this. I was under the impression that
Intel was the open source CPU vendor. If we need binary blobs in the OS to
make new chips work properly, perhaps Fedora and Red Hat should be heavily
promoting AMD until Intel decides to change its ways.
I believe all common current generation GPUs need firmware, some of
the intel platforms have needed firmware for audio for some time.
The intel audio firmware is /lib/firmware/intel/dsp_fw_* and the
various nVidia firmware is in /lib/firmware/nvidia/
(I am hoping AMD doesn't do this too. I have no idea.)
You'd be wrong, check /lib/firmware/amdgpu/