[elrepo] Latest Fglrx Drivers

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 10/28/2015 02:58 PM, dominic at dcrdev.com wrote:
> As I mentioned I'd be willing to test as well, if needs be I can give 
> you remote access to a machine as well.
>
> Probably a naive question but since fglrx 15.9 has RHEL 7.1 support 
> out of the box, shouldn't it be compatible with systemd?
     I had no opportunity to test any version on a CentOS 7 since 
November or Dec 2014. What I DID notice when I created the packages for 
15.7 was that ALL the rpm packages that could be downloaded from ATI 
were identical, independent of the major OS release version:
[wolfy at wolfy elrepo]$ rpmdev-diff 
fglrx64_p_i_c-15.20.1046-1.x86_64_rhel6_64a.rpm 
fglrx64_p_i_c-15.20.1046-1.x86_64_rhel7_64a.rpm
[wolfy at wolfy elrepo]$ ll
total 290540
-rw-rw-r--.   1 wolfy wolfy 148591223 Jul 27 09:59 
fglrx64_p_i_c-15.20.1046-1.x86_64_rhel6_64a.rpm
-rw-rw-r--.   1 wolfy wolfy 148591213 Jul 27 09:59 
fglrx64_p_i_c-15.20.1046-1.x86_64_rhel7_64a.rpm

     And, with no surprise, the ouput of rpm -qlp on the two packages is 
also identical:
-rw-rw-r--.   1 wolfy wolfy      7221 Jul 27 10:06 rhel6.txt
-rw-rw-r--.   1 wolfy wolfy      7221 Jul 27 10:06 rhel7.txt

     As far as I can see the only difference is the build time. But, as 
I said, I had no chance to test on a CentOS 7 and verify their behavior. 
I'll try to take a peek one of the next days ( or better said, nights 
:)  my boss just came with new ideas so I am really swamped at work).


> Or is there something specific that has to happens with the kmod 
> drivers, that differ from the AMD installer?
>
I will not bet my beer on this but I am pretty sure that the AMD 
packages do not take advantage of the weak-updates mechanism.


             Manuel


     PS: thank you for the offer.