Still waiting for Freesync over HDMI.. its been in display port forever, whats the hold up?
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Originally posted by salsadoom View PostStill waiting for Freesync over HDMI.. its been in display port forever, whats the hold up?
But why at all use HDMI when DP has been there for a long time?
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This is advancing painfully slowly. I am building a VR setup around christmas and if this support is not accepted for the next release by then i have no reason to go for AMD over nvidia. How is it possible AMD does not allocate enough resources to have proper release day open source support for the Vega, when all other aspects were decent. Capturing 90% of the Linux market would certainly have been good for them, and the way things have played out at least me and my friends are starting to lose patience with this neverending tweaking.
If the Linux dev community had got complete datasheets i doubt it would have taken them this long to implement the support from scratch.
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Originally posted by eydee View Post
Does not originate from AMD, but it's AMD developers who are working on it. If that's a problem, we could discard all Mesa, because Mesa does not originate from AMD.
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Originally posted by varikonniemi View PostHow is it possible AMD does not allocate enough resources to have proper release day open source support for the Vega, when all other aspects were decent.
Capturing 90% of the Linux market would certainly have been good for them
90% of a small part of the market share is still a small total result.
In theory, it would be hard to argument in favor of Linux development, even if in practice AMD (as well as Intel) DO believe in open-source, and DO set aside resources for it (publishing docs, having developers on their payroll, etc.)
But still, more resources put toward Linux development is fewer resources put toward making sure that the Windows gaming experience is good on day one.
Of course, long-term, that's what AMDGPU and DC/DAL/"the code" hopes to achieve : shared concepts across platforms so one platform won't be anymore to the detriment of another.
But we still aren't there yet.
Still, big kudos to AMD who keeps trying even if it is still an uphill battle for them.
At least they ARE trying and putting lots of efforts ! (Nvidia, I'm looking at you...)
If the Linux dev community had got complete datasheets i doubt it would have taken them this long to implement the support from scratch.
Again at least AMD will eventually publish theirs, unlike some of their competition.
For me "slow but eventually getting there" is still better than "not even bothering to try".
Good luck trying to run Nvidia drivers reliably on a rolling distro.
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