Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1

While not yet suitable for gamers or serious end usage, the Radeon "R600" Gallium3D driver that supports the Radeon HD 2000 through HD 6000 (pre-GCN) graphics cards now has an experimental NIR back-end...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=R600-NIR-In-Mesa-20.1

[ezst036]

This is really great. Bravo to Gert Wollny and other independent(including formerly independent{Tim Arceri, Marek Olšák, and Kevin Brace come to mind}) developers who are still working (or have worked in the past) toward adding new functionality for cards that may be past their prime, but still offer decent performance in a lot of use cases.

This is what open source is all about. Obsolescence should be the user's choice(or hardware failure), not the vendor's choice.

[Xaero_Vincent]

That last driver update for TeraScale cards on Windows was in 2016. It's nice to see Linux is a better, still supported platform for these old GPUs, while on Windows your SOL.

[Guest]

Ooh, this should be useful for my tablet with AMD C-60 APU.

[cb88]

Ooh, this should be useful for my tablet with AMD C-60 APU.

Not yet but it may be eventually.