On 06/10/2017 08:47 AM, Andreas Benzler wrote: > Hallo Hughes, > > thanks to let me know. It is good that you have a focus on LTS 4.9. > > Unfortunately it is so that the new graphics cards from amd to today are not served in the opensource. > That's why I'm experimenting with the latest stable versions and what is so. > > My laptop has done the linux-firmware update well, it is nevertheless one of the newest. > > The kernel and appropriate firmware is unfortunately only the one side of a driver when it comes to graphics cards. > > The hardware decoding works only sometimes. On CentOS in the moment not (Radeon / Intel), > but that is not synonymous the focus of a server system. This happens to me also with the > original packages. > > I give my homework free in the thought that it might help somebody out there. > No problem at all, and thanks for posting. It might indeed help others. If you take a look at the git repo for the linux-firmware, you can see the actions that make that installable on both CentOS-7 and also for CentOS-6 in the xen kernel tree (a couple of obsoletes and some other minor changes). https://git.centos.org/summary/sig-altarch!linux-firmware.git Keep up the good work. > Am Samstag, den 10.06.2017, 05:52 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: >> On 06/10/2017 05:17 AM, Andreas Benzler wrote: >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> >>> Because my tests on AMD and Intel, I had to update the linux firmware. >>> Update comes from the upstream fedora packet and also works on centos with new kernel. >>> >>> linux-firmware-20170605-74.git37857004.el7.centos.noarch >>> >> >> If people want an experimental kernel and linux-firmware that lives in >> the centos namespace, we have this: >> >> >> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/ >> >> There are i386 and x86_64 kernels there. >> >> Currently we are tracking the 4.9 LTS kernel branch and the fedora >> linux-firmware mentioned above. >> >> This is also the kernel that we use in the armhfp (32 bit Arm) SIG. >> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20170610/b8ff9373/attachment-0005.sig>