Older hardware will continue to be supported by the open source radeon and catalyst Linux drivers.
AMD Moves Forward With Unified Linux Driver Strategy, New Kernel Driver
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Originally posted by agd5f View PostOlder hardware will continue to be supported by the open source radeon and catalyst Linux drivers.
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Originally posted by dungeon View PostFor how long? I expect remaining fglrx r800 support will be droped let say this time or earlier next year, but according to this seems like GCN 1.0/1.1/1.2 will be droped too?
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Originally posted by agd5f View PostWhat makes you think that is the case? New chips will be supported with a new driver, older chips will continue to be supported with existing drivers just like before..
So, i expect evergreen/NI support will go away next year, but this move makes me think all GCN 1.x will go away tooLast edited by dungeon; 09 October 2014, 11:32 AM.
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Originally posted by agd5f View PostWhat makes you think that is the case? New chips will be supported with a new driver, older chips will continue to be supported with existing drivers just like before.
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The new base driver model will use the opensource drivers alongside select bits of proprietary code. This should allow backwards compatibility.
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Originally posted by tuxd3v View PostSo if we buy a new AMDAPU
part with R5 or R7 does we will get support from this nnew AMD GPU driver??
regards
tux
Basically now we are talking about future, so if you want this not yet released amdgpu driver, look for GCN 1.2 or newer APUs once those are avaliable.
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