https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98505
--- Comment #29 from Alex Deucher alexdeucher@gmail.com --- (In reply to Peter Wu from comment #23)
Alex, I don't think that the minimum date should change in 4.8 (and 4.9?) due to the risk of breakage since it is not just limited to amdgpu/radeon. Another concern is that while the year seems a good heuristic, it does not match the checks that Windows 8 performs (which may or may not be an issue): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/bringup/firmware- requirements-for-d3cold
I agree that using the date is probably not a good idea, but it's what we have now. Adjusting the date seems lower impact than changing the policy for these kernels.
I'll bring this up with linux-pci developers after the weekend. Should I proceed with proposing workaround amdgpu/radeon patches?
Sounds good. I generally don't like hacking around this in the driver, but I guess it's better than nothing at this point. Thanks for your help with this.