Article Number: RN-PRORAD-LIN-AMDGPUPRO-17-40

Release Date: December 15th, 2017

This article provides information on the latest version of the AMDGPU-Pro Driver for Linux®.

AMDGPU-Pro Driver 17.40 Highlights

  • Introduces Large Page Support for Blockchain Compute Workloads.
  • Introduces support for Radeon™ Pro SSG


Fixed Issues

  • Signal 11 observed while running Benchmark
  • Stability issues with Indigo Bench on 2nd scene render
  • Issues with Blender rendering
  • Sometimes failures are observed with FireRender > V266


Known Issues

  • Upgrades to RHEL/CentOS 7.4 won't be supported in this release – the recommended best practice is to hold off distribution upgrades until a supported version of AMDGPU-Pro is released.
  • Corruption is observed while resizing terminal window in Ubuntu 16.04.3
  • Fatal Error occurred while performing Workbench StoryboardGraphics on Ansys 18.1


Package Contents

  • AMDGPU-Pro Driver
  • ROCm Platform 1.6 in supported distributions


The AMDGPU-Pro Driver can be downloaded from the following links:

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Installing the AMDGPU-Pro Driver

For detailed instructions on how to install or uninstall the AMDGPU-Pro Driver, please refer to the following KB articles, according to the operating system of choice: 

To use Vulkan driver in this stack, Vulkan SDK version v1.0.61.0 needs to be installed. The SDK can be downloaded from:  https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home


First time Radeon™ Pro SSG setup instructions

For detailed instructions on first-time setup information (like enabling Direct GMA and NVME Raid-0) for Radeon™ Pro SSG, please refer to the following link:


Enabling Large Page Support

The syntax of this module parameter is amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=X, where the actual fragment size is 4KB * 2^X. The default is X=4, which means 64KB. To get 2MB fragments, set X=9.


Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • Edit /etc/default/grub as root and modify GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in order to add "amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9" (without the quotes). The line may look something like this after the change: 
    • GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"
    • Update grub and reboot as root:
      update-grub; reboot

RHEL

  • Edit /etc/default/grub as root and modify GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in order to add "amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9" (without the quotes). The line may look something like this after the change: 
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=rhel/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel/swap amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"
  • Update grub and reboot as root – to do that, find grub.cfg in your system, e.g. 
    On UEFI-based machines: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg; 
  • On BIOS-based machines: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg; 
  • reboot


CentOS

  • Edit /etc/default/grub as root and modify GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in order to add "amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9" (without the quotes). The line may look something like this after the change: 
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=cl/root rd.lvm.lv=cl/swap rhgb quiet amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"
  • Update grub and reboot as root – to do that, find grub.cfg in your system, e.g. 
    On UEFI-based machines: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg;
    On BIOS-based machines: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg;
    reboot


AMD Radeon™ Product Compatibility

The AMDGPU-Pro Driver is compatible with the following AMD products.

AMD Product Family Compatibility ​
Radeon™ RX Vega Series Graphics AMD Radeon™ Pro SSG
Radeon™ Vega Frontier Edition AMD Radeon™ Pro WX-series
Radeon™ RX 550/560/570/580 Series Graphics AMD FirePro™ W9100
AMD Radeon™ RX 460/470/480 Graphics AMD FirePro™ W8100
AMD Radeon™ Pro Duo AMD FirePro™ W7100
AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury/Fury X/Nano Graphics AMD FirePro™ W5100
AMD Radeon™ R9 380/380X/390/390X Graphics AMD FirePro™ W4300
AMD Radeon™ R9 285/290/290X Graphics AMD FirePro™ W4100
AMD Radeon™ R7 240/250/250X/260/260X/350 AMD FirePro™ W2100
AMD Radeon™ HD7700/7800/8500/8600 AMD FirePro™ W600
AMD Radeon™ R9 360 Graphics AMD FirePro™ S-Series
AMD Radeon™ R5 340 AMD Radeon™ Pro WX 9100

 

Compatible Operating Systems

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (64-bit version)
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.9 (64-bit version)
  • CentOS 7.3 (64-bit version)
  • CentOS 6.9 (64-bit version)
  • Ubuntu 16.04.3 (64-bit version)
  • SLED/SLES 12 SP2 (64-bit version)


Base Feature Support

  • Supported APIs:
    • VDPAU/VAAPI
    • Vulkan™ 1.0
    • OpenCL™1.2
    • OpenGL 4.5 and GLX 1.4
  • Basic display features
  • Basic power management features
    • Note: AMD does not perform QA validation for S4 (hibernation) function as it is highly platform dependent.
  • KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) and ADF (Atomic Display Framework) support
  • GPL compliant kernel module
  • AMD FirePro™ Features (EDID Management and 30-bit color)
  • FreeSync support (Please refer to this FAQ for more information)
  • DirectGMA for OpenGL
  • Install script and native packages for all supported operating systems

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