https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91880
--- Comment #109 from Jan Ziak 0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com --- (In reply to John Bridgman from comment #108)
Chris, are you using the -k firmware files and associated kernel patches, updated initrd if needed, etc... ?
My impression is that a few different issues are being discussed in this one ticket, and that is hampering progress. Not quite sure what the right split would be (if we were to close this and replace with N more focused tickets) but probably one of them should be for stability problems when running the -k firmware and checking whether locking dpm level to performance makes a difference.
My question would be: Why isn't the _k patch already in linux-git?
I tested the patch on my R9 390, so the Hawaii-specific part of the patch works on at least one machine in the world outside of freedesktop.org.
Or is there a reason to delay patch submission to linux-git?
_k firmware files are already available in Gentoo Linux for example.