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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostProprietary shitty driver has been dropped, now they use a hybrid open-closed driver.
Just do a search in this site about "AMDGPU" (that's the name of the new hybrid AMD driver), you get benches, articles and all.
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Originally posted by Ansla View PostActualy, the hybrid driver is called AMD GPU-PRO. I'm not sure if the "All Open" stack has an official name, but if you say AMDGPU most likely people will think of the open drivers.
AMDGPU by itself works, but lacks many features currently added by the proprietary modules, eventually most gaming features will be provided by AMDGPU alone and the PRO module will focus more on bleeding edge gaming features support and pro stuff.
What matters most here is that it is also the right keyword to get at the articles talking about the new AMD drivers anyway, where someone can figure out what is what on his own.
Also please note, "AMDGPU" not "AMD GPU".
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostAMDGPU is the name of the opensource part of the hybrid driver and more informal name of the whole thing afaik, with the proprietary modules added it becomes AMDGPU-PRO.Originally posted by bridgman View PostAh, so this is "franken-hybrid"... hybrid userspace with all-open kernel. Not sure how ready we are to support issues with that yet, guessing we might ask you to wait for the next hybrid release instead.
Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostAlso please note, "AMDGPU" not "AMD GPU".
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Originally posted by Ansla View PostNo, the hybrid driver has its own kernel driver, what you are describing is what bridgman calls "franken-hybrid":
The entire point was making a SINGLE driver (open) with closedsource userspace modules (and eventually replacing this with an open module in the future).
AMDGPU is the driver you can find in the kernel and is open.
The AMDGPU-PRO package contains the closed userspace modue AND an upgraded version of AMDGPU that has a bunch of new things that currently only interface to the proprietary module as none had time to make a open module for that yet. This part gets compiled on the user system as it isn't shipped with kernel, and afaik replaces the AMDGPU driver.
Due to (obvious) linux kernel policies they cannot just merge that code in mainline until they have an opensource userspace component using it, even if the code itself is technically open and is still AMDGPU.
So to recap, AMDGPU-PRO contains a "future" AMDGPU with hooks for other more advanced stuff AND the closedsource module that uses them, so it is still hybrid.
bridgman said this in a recent thread here, I can try fetch it if you don't believe me at face value.
Or maybe it's just AMD marketing that calls it AMD GPU-PRO? I think the developers call it AMDGPU-PRO. Somehow naming conventions are always confusing at AMD.
I go with the latter as it's the only one that makes sense as a name.
AMD marketing dept isn't terribly good.
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