WhateverGreen

Lilu plugin providing patches to select ATI/AMD GPUs. Requires Lilu 1.1.6 or newer.

Features

• Fixes boot to black screen
• Fixes sleep wake to black screen
• Fixes boot logo distortion in certain cases (-radlogo)
• Fixes transmitter/encoder in autodetected connectors for multimonitor support (-raddvi)
• Fixes certain HD 7xxx initialisation (radpg=15)
• Fixes HDMI audio for natively supported devices if not injected manually
• Allows enforcing 24-bit mode on unsupported displays (-rad24)
• Allows booting without video acceleration (-radvesa)
• Allows automatically setting GPU model name or providing it manually for RadeonFramebuffer
• Allows specifying custom connectors via device properties for RadeonFramebuffer
• Allows tuning autodetected connector priority via device properties (HD 7xxx or newer)

Documentation

Read FAQs and avoid asking any questions:

• English FAQ
• Русский FAQ

No support is provided for the time being.

Boot arguments

Add -raddbg to enable debug printing (available in DEBUG binaries).
Add -radvesa to disable ATI/AMD video acceleration completely.
Add -radoff to disable WhateverGreen.
Add -radbeta to enable WhateverGreen on unsupported os versions (10.13 and below are enabled by default).
Add -rad24 to enforce 24-bit display mode.
Add -radlogo to patch boot logo distortion.
Add -raddvi to enable DVI transmitter correction (required for 290X, 370, etc.)
Add radpg=15 to disable several power-gating modes (see FAQ, required for 7xxx GPUs).

Credits

• Apple for macOS
• AMD for ATOM VBIOS parsing code
• The PCI ID Repository for multiple GPU model names
• igork for power-gating patch discovery
• RemB for continuing sleep-wake research and finding the right register
• Vandroiy for maintaining the GPU model detection database
• vit9696 for writing the software and maintaining it