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

Posted by timothy on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:02PM from the time-to-move-the-pixels dept.

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:Closed source... by hairyfeet · 2016-03-18 17:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

Uhhh...did you bother to read TFA? AMD has ASKED the community for help, given them the code, which is exactly what the community asked for in the first place and...nothing.
So its kinda hypocritical to bitch when the community has got the code and just haven't gotten it done yet. Maybe they are having issues, maybe they are too busy dealing with the SystemD debacle, who knows, but the community asked for code and they got it so the ball is in their court now.

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