amdgpu: SMU check loaded firmware failed.

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rosomak123 · Post by **rosomak123** » Sat Sep 27, 2025 2:34 pm

Hello, after an upgrade my gentoo run into problem. During an init (OpenRC) the screen freezes and in the syslog is the message mentioned in subject. Tried various experiments with downgrades, use-flags changes, etc., nothing helped.

The problematic part of syslog starts with:

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Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: amdgpu: SMU check loaded firmware failed.
Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: amdgpu: SMU firmware load failed
Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: amdgpu: fw load failed
Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: amdgpu: smu firmware loading failed
Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:00:01.0: amdgpu: amdgpu_device_ip_init failed
Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:00:01.0: amdgpu: Fatal error during GPU init
Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:00:01.0: amdgpu: amdgpu: finishing device.
Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Sep 27 15:19:49 localhost kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 710 at drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c:631 amdgpu_irq_put+0x46/0x70 [amdgpu]

What can be reason of it? Which further information should I provide? I'll appreciate any help.

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lspci
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00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wani [Radeon R5/R6/R7 Graphics] (rev e2)
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emerge --info
Portage 3.0.68 (python 3.13.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-14, glibc-2.41-r6, 6.12.47-gentoo-dist x86_64)
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Goverp · Post by **Goverp** » Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:51 pm

What kernel do you use? My first guess is you have configured your own, and you have the amdgpu module and its firmware built-in, and the error message is because it can't find the appropriate smu_.... file - see /lib.firmware/amdgpu/smu* - in which case you'd need to update the kernel CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE item.

If not, perhaps the amdgpu module's been updated and needs an update to the linux-firmware package to get the latest version.

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:57 pm

Would be better to show the whole dmesg output from booting, using wgetpaste or similar

and what does this return zgrep AMDGPU /proc/config.gz

rosomak123 · Post by **rosomak123** » Sat Sep 27, 2025 6:10 pm

Goverp wrote:What kernel do you use? My first guess is you have configured your own, and you have the amdgpu module and its firmware built-in, and the error message is because it can't find the appropriate smu_.... file - see /lib.firmware/amdgpu/smu* - in which case you'd need to update the kernel CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE item.

If not, perhaps the amdgpu module's been updated and needs an update to the linux-firmware package to get the latest version.

Thank you for your response. This behavior was the same with unchanged kernel, which the system correctly functioned with before the update. Now I try to use gentoo-dist-bin kernel (6.12.47-gentoo-dist) with the same result. The linux-firmware is of its last stable version (20250808). I even tried to downgrade linux-firmware to the version used before update with no success.

rosomak123 · Post by **rosomak123** » Sat Sep 27, 2025 6:23 pm

Anon-E-moose wrote:Would be better to show the whole dmesg output from booting, using wgetpaste or similar

and what does this return zgrep AMDGPU /proc/config.gz

dmesg: https://bpa.st/EQXQ

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zgrep AMDGPU /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU=m
CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_SI=y
CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK=y
CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_USERPTR=y
# CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_WERROR is not set

Thank you for your response.

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Sat Sep 27, 2025 8:27 pm

What kernel version were you using when it was working?

Edit to add:

Not sure if this is normal, as I don't use an initrd, but there are errors here and there.

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[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.12.47-gentoo-dist root=UUID=831bec15-984d-4c41-ae71-23a0e6143187 ro
[    0.000000] [Firmware Info]: CPU: Re-enabling disabled Topology Extensions Support.
...
[    0.056594] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.12.47-gentoo-dist root=UUID=831bec15-984d-4c41-ae71-23a0e6143187 ro
[    0.056645] Unknown kernel command line parameters "BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.12.47-gentoo-dist", will be passed to user space.
...
[    1.340517] AMD-Vi: [Firmware Warn]: EFR mismatch. Use IVHD EFR (0x37ef22294ada : 0x77ef22294ada), EFR2 (0x0 : 0x0).
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[    7.279360] amdgpu: smu version 27.22.00
[    7.685623] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted 831bec15-984d-4c41-ae71-23a0e6143187 r/w.
[    7.698320] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted 831bec15-984d-4c41-ae71-23a0e6143187.
[    7.818978] Adding 33553984k swap on /dev/sda3.  Priority:-2 extents:1 across:33553984k SS
[    9.436379] amdgpu: SMU check loaded firmware failed.
[    9.436384] amdgpu: SMU firmware load failed
[    9.436386] amdgpu: fw load failed
[    9.436387] amdgpu: smu firmware loading failed
[    9.436390] amdgpu 0000:00:01.0: amdgpu: amdgpu_device_ip_init failed
[    9.436394] amdgpu 0000:00:01.0: amdgpu: Fatal error during GPU init
[    9.436540] amdgpu 0000:00:01.0: amdgpu: amdgpu: finishing device.

Did you "make modules" with the new kernel?