More AMDGPU Vega Patches Published

[pal666]

so we can - you know - use it in QEMU for gaming? ^^

why do you need to sponsor non-linux games?

[pal666]

Here have some...
sudo rm -rf /

did you test it?

[juno]

Unlikely, since it requires additional hardware in the chip which is only in the cards for the professional segment.

I'm afraid you're right. There have been a few statements for that being a "pro-feature".
They are being ridiculous though, when Intel supports hardware virtualisation on any of their cheap ass GPUs for any customer and AMD does not...

[bridgman]

I'm afraid you're right. There have been a few statements for that being a "pro-feature".
They are being ridiculous though, when Intel supports hardware virtualisation on any of their cheap ass GPUs for any customer and AMD does not...

I don't think even Intel is calling their offering "hardware virtualization", and AFAIK it is not hardware-assisted other than maybe using IOMMU for process isolation.

[juno]

I don't think even Intel is calling their offering "hardware virtualization", and AFAIK it is not hardware-assisted other than maybe using IOMMU for process isolation.

You're right, they call it "graphics virtualization"
Still they offer 3 different solutions to their customers. AMD offers none.

[Karbowiak]

why do you need to sponsor non-linux games?

Because the world isn't black and white
There are games that'll never come natively to Linux, and that Wine won't be able to run optimally - and instead of hamstringing myself to not being able to play them (or god forbid, having to reboot, to boot into a different OS to play them) - it would be neato if i could just fire up a VM, and get near native performance from it thanks to some clever hardware virtualization stuff.

[pal666]

There are games that'll never come natively to Linux, and that Wine won't be able to run optimally - and instead of hamstringing myself to not being able to play them

why do you have to play them? there are more games than can be played by one person, games depend on you, not the other way around