Originally posted by Dukenukemx
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Also, it would be cool if someone with the necessary knowledge and interest would take a stab at the development of a Vulkan driver for R600 graphics cards. From what I've understood, this should theoretically be possible, since R600 GPUs support compute shaders.
Heck, someone has been writing a Vulkan driver for the VC4 GPU in the older Raspberry Pis (everything before the Pi 4), and that GPU doesn't even support OpenGL 3! So if even that can be done, then surely it could be done for the R600 generation of graphics cards as well.
Of course, as such older graphics cards get older and less used, there are also less volunteers out there (let alone sufficiently skilled and patient ones) to maintain graphics drivers for them. However, It would still be fun to see what these old beasts are capable of, with well-optimized modern open source drivers.
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