AMD Developer Posts More Patches For RADV

[mitch074]

Also the funny bit is that once kernel support for early gcn chips for amdgpu goes mainstream, having radv support them too will probably happen fast. AMD's own Vulkan driver needs that too so not much difference

As a matter of fact, I tested RADV on a RadeonHD 7770 GHz edition 1 Gb (thus a very early GCN 1.0 chip) last month, using a DL/DAL-enabled kernel (based on vanilla 3.9.24), and it worked quite well - I ran Mad Max beta on it. Performance was worse in Vulkan than in OpenGL, but there was no rendering error. Oh, and HDMI sound worked beautifully.

[nhaehnle]

This was just de-duplicating some code and using a shared path, means fixes from now on benefit RADV and radeonsi

This guy (gal?) gets it. We're not supporting radv, but it makes sense to look into places where Mesa overall can be improved. The amdgpu-pro Vulkan driver will be open-sourced, but I can't give you a date for that either, unfortunately.

[VikingGe]

Also the funny bit is that once kernel support for early gcn chips for amdgpu goes mainstream, having radv support them too will probably happen fast

radv already does have code for pretty much all GCN GPUs as far as I'm aware. On my Kaveri notebook it does indeed work, everything else probably also depends on how lucky you are running amdgpu on your not officially supported GPU.

I don't understand why certain people hate it so much and why they have to be rude all the time, though.

[cj.wijtmans]

i just hate how monolithic mesa is.

[nanonyme]

i just hate how monolithic mesa is.

Yay, just like Linux. Totally ew

[nanonyme]

radv already does have code for pretty much all GCN GPUs as far as I'm aware. On my Kaveri notebook it does indeed work, everything else probably also depends on how lucky you are running amdgpu on your not officially supported GPU.

I don't understand why certain people hate it so much and why they have to be rude all the time, though.

Didn't run on my GCN1.0, I was told it's because it requires amdgpu kernel driver
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Edit: Oh, misunderstood, so you meant radv in fact is missing nothing for earlier GCN support

[cj.wijtmans]

Yay, just like Linux. Totally ew

linux is to monolithic with some drivers. amd and nouveau

[starshipeleven]

i just hate how monolithic glibc is.

Fixed.

Being monolithic is its entire point, as it has common code for various different stuff.

For that matter, other things like ext or f2fs filesystem tools are composed by one big library and many tiny executables depending on it.

[starshipeleven]

linux is to monolithic with some drivers. amd and nouveau

What does "monolithic" mean in this context? Because the AMD or noveau kernel modules are well, modules. But the kernel driver isn't related with 3D rendering code, it only exposes the hardware to Mesa.

[nanonyme]

linux is to monolithic with some drivers. amd and nouveau

Modularity on both is on same level. Don't want a driver? Cool, you don't need to compile it. If you dislike the fact you get all drivers in one package, blame your distro