AMD Instinct™ Maintenance Update 2.0 Release Notes

About This Document

• Version: 1.00
• Last Updated: 12-5-2022

This document describes the Maintenance Update package for MI200 GPU firmware and information about downloading and installing firmware updates. 

List of Supported Operating Systems

GPU Support

• CDNA GPUs - AMD Instinct™ MI200

AMD Instinct™ MI210/MI250 Accelerator is a graphics processing unit developed by AMD. This document represents information specific to the firmware for these accelerators.

• For MI210 production information, refer to the https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/amd-instinct-mi210-brochure.pdf.
• For MI250 production information, refer to the https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/amd-instinct-mi200-datasheet.pdf.

Documentation Updates for Maintenance Update 2.0

Release Documentation - Download and Installation Instructions

The User’s Guide provides both download and installation instructions for this maintenance update.

• AMD FW Flash User's Guide

What's New in this Release

In this package, AMD is providing a new release of the firmware for MI200 Series GPU Accelerators, and a firmware install tool – AMD FW FLASH 1.1. Additionally, this release provides a cumulative update to firmware that is described below.

AMD Instinct™ Firmware Release Notes for MU#2 - 12/5/2022

MI210/MI250

This IFWI release fixes the following issues:

1. Certain applications running in a Virtual Machine may experience random crashes or hangs when executing ROCm 5.3 or a current version of the kernel driver.
2. Resolves the Poison setting is inconsistent in DF/UMC(1:0) message that was logged in a Virtual Machine's system log.
3. Resolves the RAS Poison detected in VCN0, sub_block0, poison_stat: 0xffffffff message that was logged in a Virtual Machine's system log.

AMD Instinct™ Firmware Release Notes for MU#1 - 11/15/2022

MI210

This IFWI release fixes the following issues:

1. Under near peak traffic conditions, which stress HBM and IO; driver timeouts, fatal errors or application hangs may be observed requiring application restart.
2. Enable xGMI spread-spectrum

MI250

This IFWI release fixes the following issues:

1. Under near peak traffic conditions, which stress HBM and IO; driver timeouts, fatal errors or application hangs may be observed requiring application restart.

Deprecations and Warnings

AMD does not support different versions of firmware (IFWI) running in the same system. All GPU accelerators should be at the same level independent of hive affiliation. All GPU's should be updated or rolled back to the same firmware version prior to running operationally.

The AMD FW Flash tool, amdfwflash, is not intended to be used in a Virtual Machine/Guest OS environment. Using the amdfwflash tool in a Virtual Machine/Guest OS may result in an undefined behavior and unsupported configuration.

Maintenance Update #2 deprecates Maintenance Update #1.

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