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AMD Publishes New 'AMDGPU' Linux Graphics Driver

Posted by Soulskill on from the doing-it-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes: AMD has made available its new AMDGPU Linux graphics driver comprised of a brand new DRM/KMS kernel driver, a new xf86-video-amdgpu X11 driver, and modifications to libdrm and Gallium3D. This new AMDGPU driver is designed for supporting AMD's next-generation hardware with no support differences for currently supported Radeon GPUs. While yet to be released, this new AMDGPU driver is the critical piece to the new unified driver strategy with Catalyst where their high performance proprietary driver will now become limited to being a user-space binary component that uses this open-source kernel driver.

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  1. Actually, not. by DrYak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually the footprint of binary is dwindling.

    Before:
    - either catalyst, which is a completely closed source down to the kernel module.
    - or opensource, which is an entirely different stack, even the kernel module is different.

    Now:
    - open source stack is still here the same way as before.
    - catalyst is just the opengl library which sits atop the same opensource stack as the opensource.

    So no, actually I'm rejoincing. (That might also be because I don't style my facial hair as "neck bread" ).

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  2. Re:Can't they just get it right? by aaaaaaargh! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For example here, here and here.

    But I remember many more mentions of problems with NVIDIA drivers at Gearslutz. Obviously, that doesn't mean that there are always problems, I just took such comments as a sign to be cautious about switching to NVIDIA. I'll probably still do it, because I'm fed up with ATI. It's good to hear that you don't have any problems.