AMD Publishes Preview Linux Hybrid Driver With Vulkan, OpenGL 4.5 Support (phoronix.com)

An anonymous reader writes: AMD has finally published the previously talked about closed-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux. Announced by AMD via the Phoronix Forums is the new hybrid driver dubbed "AMD GPU-PRO Beta Driver – Linux." This closed-source user-space driver provides the first AMD Vulkan support on Linux along with OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL 2.0, and VDPAU video acceleration capabilities. But in using the open-source AMDGPU kernel driver, only the very latest AMD GPUs are currently supported (GCN 1.2+). Update: 03/19 03:22 GMT by T : Sorry for the borked link; now fixed.

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Re:Well there's two things with that

[hairyfeet]

Did I say it wasn't? I said the community is being hypocritical because for fucking YEARS what has been their mantra? What were their words? "If you just give us the code we'll do the rest".

You got what you asked for, so quit whining about the drivers because there is the code, its right there, isn't that what you asked for? I have to LMNAO at the blatant hypocrisy of a community that supposedly values "the four freedoms" yet when handed the code have the unmitigated gall to say "wahh it doesn't support my 8 year old GPU, I'm going to Nvidia who doesn't give me shit and is so hateful to FOSS that Linus himself told them to fuck off".

You said "give us the code", you got what you asked for, you now have ZERO right to complain. If there isn't a driver for your particular card? Nobody's fault but the community.