Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 27 days agoRadeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Driverswww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10cross-posted to: linux@lemmy.ml
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkRadeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Driverswww.phoronix.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square6linkfedilinkcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.ml
minus-squareScoopta@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoThat 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.
minus-squareVik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoAs 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
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 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.
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.
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
Not only external but a fork of Intel’s Vulkan driver. That’s why Intel’s copyright is mentioned in many file headers.