So AMDGPU is only for newer cards? was looking forward to being able to hotswap between mesa and catalyst.
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AMD Releases New "AMDGPU" Linux Kernel Driver & Mesa Support
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W00! Congrats to the AMD team for getting this out the door.
Should make the next upgrade a pretty easy decision, and it'll make my next laptop purchase much more likely to be an AMD APU-based machine (which it was probably going to be anyway).
Hopefully this will make it brain-dead simple to switch between catalyst/mesa for OpenCL runtimes as well... I.e. Run Mesa for all of my day to day stuff, and then do an LD_PRELOAD/LD_LIBRARY_PATH override any time that I want to run an OpenCL workload test against catalyst.
Hopefully this mixing of drivers will be possible if they're both running on the same shared kernel driver/libdrm.
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Originally posted by peppercats View PostSo AMDGPU is only for newer cards? was looking forward to being able to hotswap between mesa and catalyst.
Hidden behind a kernel option is basic support for AMD Sea Islands GPUs within the AMDGPU driver stack, but that's just in there for AMD's initial testing purposes.
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Just a reminder that most of the things you associate with "progress" (GL levels, gaming performance etc..) are in the radeonsi (pipe) and radeon (winsys) userspace drivers, which are the same whether you are using radeon or amdgpu kernel drivers.Test signature
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Michael,
Next up for AMD Linux we'll hopefully see the new Catalyst driver published that leverages the AMDGPU kernel driver, but that probably won't come until the new hardware launches are within sight.
I get the feeling you are setting yourself up for some big anti-AMD rant for not doing this right away, and constant streams of articles about how it's still not been done. I really hope that's not where this is going.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostJust a reminder that most of the things you associate with "progress" (GL levels, gaming performance etc..) are in the radeonsi (pipe) and radeon (winsys) userspace drivers, which are the same whether you are using radeon or amdgpu kernel drivers.
or is that incorrect?
because that would be interesting(and extremely useful) if so.
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