(In reply to John Bridgman from comment #108)
> Chris, are you using the -k firmware files and a=
ssociated kernel patches,
> updated initrd if needed, etc... ?
>=20
> My impression is that a few different issues are being discussed in th=
is 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 tic=
kets)
> but probably one of them should be for stability problems when running=
 the
> -k firmware and checking whether locking dpm level to performance make=
s 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 w=
orks
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.