AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8

On Friday in addition to Intel submitting their new Xe kernel graphics driver to DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.8, the red team sent in their latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes ahead of this next kernel cycle. Exciting on the AMD side is landing the AMD color management properties support! But on the downside, it's compile-time disabled for the time being...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Hidden-Colors-Linux-6.8

[Zeioth]

Excited to be able to load EDID profiles in wlroots eventually

[aviallon]

Is it just me, or Linux development is going much much faster these days than it was a decade ago?

[aufkrawall]

Excited to be able to load EDID profiles in wlroots eventually

Well, you couldn't do it in wlroots, but it has been working via kernel parameter for a long time. Only tricky thing is to include it in initramfs with some not so user-friendly distributions, as this for whatever reason is also required without early KMS.

Edit: Or are you referring to chromaticity values provided by EDID?

[skeevy420]

Is it just me, or Linux development is going much much faster these days than it was a decade ago?

It's not you. Things move a hell of a lot faster these days.

I suspect they compile with X3Ds

[silentcreek]

Could someone enlighten me about what this actually means practically? I use a display with hardware calibration support (NEC) and an AMD GPU and my ICC profiles seem to load fine on my Linux desktop (KDE on X.org/OpenSUSE). What does this new code enable that you can't do so far? Is this only required for HDR?