Valve Developer Posts New AMD GPU Debugging Tool, Part Of Improving Linux Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Valve Developer Posts New AMD GPU Debugging Tool, Part Of Improving Linux Driver

Another Valve developer has begun contributing to the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack. Besides posting some RADV Vulkan patches last week, today he's announced a new GPU debugging tool he's been working on for AMD's driver/hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Andres-GPU-Tool-RADV

[chithanh]

This tool simply called "gputool" so far just supports reading and decoding registers

I wonder whether this tool and marcan's Radeon RAI tools can benefit from each other.

[Xicronic]

I'm glad to see that AMD's push for open source is paying off! With all this support from the community, I wouldn't be surprised if AMD drivers caught up or surpassed NVIDIA by the year's end.

[kamild1996]

Cool! So maybe I can find out why TF2 is still crashing on Linux...

[Xicronic]

Cool! So maybe I can find out why TF2 is still crashing on Linux...

Are you running Mesa 13.0.3 or Mesa-git? If not, there was a very recent fix for a texture streaming issue. I used to not be able to finish a single game, but now I can play for hours flawlessly.

[kamild1996]

Are you running Mesa 13.0.3 or Mesa-git? If not, there was a very recent fix for a texture streaming issue. I used to not be able to finish a single game, but now I can play for hours flawlessly.

Do you mean that Mesa bug that was unfixed for x years and finally got fixed? If so, then yeah, I updated to the latest version of Mesa from git and it sadly didn't fix the problem.

[Ronshere]

Considering things, this is an awesome development. Very excited that it is happening!

[ElectricPrism]

I'm glad to see that AMD's push for open source is paying off! With all this support from the community, I wouldn't be surprised if AMD drivers caught up or surpassed NVIDIA by the year's end.

When I think about everything going on the last year in MESA with AMD I can't help but think of this scene from Star Trek

I certainly think that if development in 2017 looks anything like 2016 their 2017 GPU will rek on Linux as the RX 480 already gives a very clean 1080p experience.

[dungeon]

When i think of ATi/AMD i think of someone who needs help and not just one time - they need it constantly

[MrCooper]

Do you mean that Mesa bug that was unfixed for x years and finally got fixed? If so, then yeah, I updated to the latest version of Mesa from git and it sadly didn't fix the problem.

Just to make absolutely sure: You did update the 32-bit binaries from Git, right?