AMD Sends In A Variety Of Graphics Driver Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle

Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 25 January 2026 at 12:27 PM EST. 1 Comment

This week's batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD changes queued up ahead of the next kernel merge window is focused on delivering a variety of driver fixes.

Already queued up in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window is new RDNA 3.5 and RDNA4 GFX12.1 hardware IP blocks being enabled, improved support for DP-HDMI dongles, and a variety of other improvements. This week's round of AMDGPU/AMDFD material heading to DRM-Next is focused on fixes.

There are fixes for RDNA4 (GC 12), user-queue handling. IP discovery fixes, HDMI fixes, VCN queue reset fixes, and a variety of other fixes with being late in the v6.19 kernel cycle with the v6.20~7.0 merge window fast approaching:

amdgpu:
- GC 12 fix
- UserQ fixes
- Misc error path fixes
- IP discovery fixes
- Misc cleanups
- HDMI fixes
- Documentation update
- Panel replay fixes
- Panel type handling fixes
- DCN 3.1.x fixes
- DC analog display fix
- SMU 6 fixes
- VCN 4.0.3 queue reset fix
- VCN 5.0.1 queue reset fix
- GPUVM TLB flush fix
- RAS fixes
- DC idle optimization fix

amdkfd:
- MQD fix for GC 9.4.3 and 9.5
- GC 11 cooperative launch fix
- GC 12.1 trap handler fixes
- Misc cleanups

radeon:
- Use drm_* logging helpers for VCE

See this pull request for the full list of patches as part of this week's AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull.

Meanwhile this week for the current Linux 6.19 kernel cycle was an important regression revert to workaround several recent bug reports.