(In reply to comment #85)
> (In reply to comment #82)
> > (In reply to comment #80)
> > > 
> > > I have got the new firmware (unless there's an even newer one) and have
> > > booted into the other 3.17 before - but it eventually crashed due to missing
> > > fixes.
> > 
> > When did you download it?  The header format changed last week and I
> > uploaded a new version.
> 
> does this apply to PITCAIRN gpus, too ?
> 
> I only see firmware up to April (PITCAIRN_mc2.bin)
> 
> kindly link to the new firmware files so that I can update to it, too

http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ucode.tar.gz

The new firmwares have lowercase names so you can keep the old ones in place
for kernels < 3.17.