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    PCIe Passthrough of Radeon iGPU fails

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      poddingue Vates 🪐 @mgr42
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      You just did mention the team. 😉
      The mention itself is easy: just type @ and start typing Team-Hypervisor-Kernel, and the forum should autocomplete it into a real group mention.

      On the OpROM idea, you might be onto something. That Arch guide does extract the option ROM to a file, and I know some passthrough setups feed a ROM file to the device, but I honestly don't know whether XCP-ng or Xen exposes a way to supply one for an iGPU. That's the kind of thing the hypervisor team would know, so it's worth asking them (and they've already been pinged twice or more times, so...). Getting a cheap discrete GPU is probably the path of least resistance though, for what it's worth.

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        yannsionneau Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
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        Hello @mgr42
        I can confirm that indeed today AMD iGPU passthrough is not working on XCP-ng.
        I am currently (slowly) working on it.

        There are other references about this topic in the Forum and on GitHub FYI:

        • https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/11918/amd-barcelo-passthrough-issues-any-success-stories
        • https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/8909/issue-to-load-gpu-passthrough-invalid-pci-rom-header-signature-expecting-0xaa55-got-0x4556
        • https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/806
        • https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/commit/930ffb34e42d674b8234c3d8399fdba97efa6b38

        On the setup I am working on, the Expansion ROM is provided indeed by firmware via the VFCT ACPI table.
        I dumped it to a file and provided it to qemu-dm xen-pci-passthrough device via the romfile= argument (via a modified XAPI build).

        I can now indeed see a ROM bar in the guest but unfortunately its content is not the content of the file therefore nothing works (amdgpu driver is unable to get its ROM and fails).

        So now I'm debugging qemu to try to understand the issue with the emulated/passed-through ROM BAR.

        Regards,

        Yann
        Kernel & Hypervisor team

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          steff22 @yannsionneau
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          @yannsionneau I also can't get Radeon iGPU to work either with xcp-ng 8.3

          with hardware
          hvovedkort B650D4U3-2L2Q/BCM,)
          cpu AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

          tried on ubuntu 25.04 and windows 10

          get this error message

          lspci -nnk
          dmesg | grep amdgpu
          
          amdgpu: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x4556
          amdgpu: Unable to locate a BIOS ROM
          amdgpu: Fatal error during GPU init
          Unable to locate a BIOS ROM
          
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            poddingue Vates 🪐 @steff22
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            steff22, the answer you want is one post above yours. 😉
            Yann confirmed at post #4 that AMD iGPU passthrough doesn't work on XCP-ng today and that he's working on it, so your Invalid PCI ROM header signature looks like the known symptom rather than something specific to your board.
            He also linked https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/8909 , same error string, if you want the longer history. I don't know enough about the ROM BAR side to add anything useful to what he wrote, and I'd rather not guess in front of him. 😊
            Worth following this thread, he said he'd keep at it.

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              steff22 @poddingue
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              @poddingue yeah I saw it now 🙂 but I was more like mentioning that many people also have the same problem.

              Hope it gets resolved soon 🙂

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                yannsionneau Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @steff22
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                @steff22
                I am making good progress on this and I will soon have some packages to share for people to try and give feedback 🙂

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                  poddingue Vates 🪐 @yannsionneau
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                  @yannsionneau That's excellent news, thanks a bunch! 🎉

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                    steff22 @yannsionneau
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                    @yannsionneau That's great news 🙂 thank you very much🙂

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                      mgr42 @yannsionneau
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                      @yannsionneau That's great to hear, I can't wait to see what it'll look like.

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                        strom137 @yannsionneau
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                        @yannsionneau ,
                        may this link helps if you not anyway know it
                        https://medium.com/@timemaster5/getting-amd-phoenix-igpu-passthrough-working-on-xen-xcp-ng-8856593f9c0d

                        I will give it a try this weekend

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