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    • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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      25 days ago

      This is a huge win for the open source community!!

      The headline alone? No, I don’t think so, because AMD’s driver had a reputation for working in some situations (mostly non-gaming IIRC) where Mesa didn’t.

      However, this bit quoted from the release notes might make up for it:

      “The Mesa Vulkan driver will be officially supported, along with Mesa OpenGL and Multimedia support.”

      Assuming they mean that AMD will work with Mesa to get the remaining edge cases fixed, so that the proprietary driver is no longer needed at all, this does seem like good news.

    • Scoopta@programming.dev
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      25 days ago

      That is a big deal. RadeonSI has always had official support but for some reason AMD has been ignoring RADV in favor of their own stuff. Glad to see they’re shifting to mesa for literally everything other than compute.

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        25 days ago

        As far as I’m aware, the RadeonSI driver was built internally, whilst RADV was an external effort.

        The focus was on AMDVLK as it’s similar in design to the XGL windows vulkan driver

        • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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          14 days ago

          RADV was an external effort.

          Not only external but a fork of Intel’s Vulkan driver. That’s why Intel’s copyright is mentioned in many file headers.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I didn’t even realize there was such a thing…

    When using a very recent AMD discrete GPU that is not yet well supported by recent versions of Linux distributions, AMD recommends the most recent release of Radeon™ Software for Linux®.