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Pocket

18 Dec, 2017 @ 3:48pm

AMDGPU is getting open sourced

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-open-vulkan&num=1

For the first time in ages, official AMD code will be available to the developers of the RadeonSI unofficial driver. This code notably includes the offical driver for Vulkan. I'm excited about this because hopefully it will mean out-of-the-box support for Vulkan on the R7 and R9 series cards, which currently require some hacking to support AMDGPU. And the last time I tried hacking something in the graphics stack, I got locked out of running do-release-upgrade.

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xdshot

18 Dec, 2017 @ 7:34pm

Can't see link to sources. Where can I grab it?

x_wing

19 Dec, 2017 @ 3:15am

Originally posted by xDShot™:
Can't see link to sources. Where can I grab it?

Not yet comrade...

AMD stated "it will likely be within a few days", so we must wait.

xdshot

19 Dec, 2017 @ 3:28am

Originally posted by x_wing:
Originally posted by xDShot™:
Can't see link to sources. Where can I grab it?

Not yet comrade...

AMD stated "it will likely be within a few days", so we must wait.

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code" (c)

Kain

24 Dec, 2017 @ 9:34am

Originally posted by xDShot™:
Originally posted by x_wing:

Not yet comrade...

AMD stated "it will likely be within a few days", so we must wait.
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code" (c)

It is going to be part of the 4.15 Kernel. Right now there's RC's available if you want to test it, i think right now they are on 4.15 RC4. Try it, just not on a production machine