AMD Working To Release MES Documentation & Source Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Working To Release MES Documentation & Source Code

Following up on their tweet earlier this week that they would be working to open-source more of their GPU software stack and hardware documentation, AMD now says they will be releasing documentation followed by the source code for their Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) IP block found within Radeon GPUs...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Docs-And-Source-Code

[Quackdoc]

Tiny corporation, Big win

[RejectModernity]

Oh, wow, that's why I buy AMD GPUs

[nazar-pc]

I'm not a customer of Tiny Corp, but I appreciate that they managed to convince AMD to be even more open

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Oh, wow, that's why I buy AMD GPUs

Because they don't let the GPU compute community help them fix their problems until they are publicly shamed ?

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Thanks Tiny Corp. All the haters in the previous threads should thank you as well but that seems unlikely.

[NeoMorpheus]

Damned if you do…

Damned if you dont…

AMD has no hope in this world populated by Ngreedia drones.

[arunbupathy]

Damned if you do…

At least, you tried.

And until you do, you'll never know if you could have won.

[MadCatX]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how odd this is? Tiny Corp wants to make business with AMD so they literally offer to fix their dumpsterfire of a kernel driver and firmware code *for free*, just so they can purchase their products? Thank you Tiny Corp and George Hotz, hopefully you can help both yourselves and AMD.

[Daktyl198]

Because they don't let the GPU compute community help them fix their problems until they are publicly shamed ?

Hey, at least it happens even if it requires public shaming.

On NVidia's side, they don't even allow FOSS drivers to reclock the GPU. The new "Open Source Driver" for NVidia is a 300 line shim that effectively just talks to the same exact binary blob, just cut down in features and distributed differently.