On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:08 PM, zxq9 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> On 05/25/2012 11:56 AM, Phong X Nguyen wrote: > >>> Can you use DKMS to automate driver building on kernel update? >> >> I haven't messed with it myself, but it certainly should work fine if you >> just want to keep the same version of Catalyst around. >> >> Since the AMD driver release updates nearly as often as the Kernel itself, >> I've been building new fglrx rpms with the latest driver against each new >> kernel as they come out and keeping them in our repo. Some of the driver >> updates bring significant performance imrovements that actually matter to >> us, so we try not to miss any. > > Very true. Both the ATI driver and the kernel get updated fairly > frequently (about once a month). > >> I haven't found a way to completely automate away keeping track of the new >> AMD releases yet, though, so keeping fglrx rpms up to date is a lot like >> packaging a high-frequency project for a distro (as in, treating AMD >> Catalyst essentially the same way you would an upstream project). >> >> Anyway, DKMS is simple enough to set up that feeding it new Catalyst >> releases as they come out shouldn't be too difficult. (Well, from my >> understanding anyway. Again, I haven't done this myself yet, though I might >> give it a shot if I can get some time to play with it -- though even if any >> part of it is difficult the situation should be routine enough that wrapping >> any needed re-configuration process in a script should be trivial.) > > The kernel module HowTo article has a section for DKMS : > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules > > I have not tried it myself since I originally wrote it (because kmods > became my primary method of module building) but I believe it still > works. > > Akemi Thanks to all. Kindly check the following - there AMD admits there shortcomings with linux support of APU. " http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2180336/amd-admits-improving-linux-opencl-support "