RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Continues Building Up Features Quickly

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Continues Building Up Features Quickly

Just earlier this week I published initial open-source benchmarks of the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver that is the community-driven, unofficial AMD open-source Vulkan code-base for now. At the rate the driver is continuing to evolve, it probably won't be not more than a few days before some fresh benchmarks are warranted...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Vulkan-DCC-More

[Adarion]

It's astonishing to see this driver growing so quickly. Well, I hope AMD will get that legal review done quickly. Otherwise I wonder how these two branches then will go together. It would be sad if any work was wasted.

[Awesomeness]

I wonder how these two branches then will go together.

Those are two branches, those are two completely different pieces of software. AMD’s Vulkan stack has nothing to do with Mesa.

[Pontostroy]

vulkaninfo works on amdgpu si =)

Device Extensions and layers:
=============================
GPU0
VkPhysicalDeviceProperties:
===========================
apiVersion = 0x400005 (1.0.5)
driverVersion = 1 (0x1)
vendorID = 0x1002
deviceID = 0x6798
deviceType = DISCRETE_GPU
deviceName = AMD RADV TAHITI
VkPhysicalDeviceLimits:

[Awesomeness]

Those are two branches

Damn, forgot to add "not". Has editing been disabled?

[duby229]

Damn, forgot to add "not". Has editing been disabled?

Yeah, spambots figured a way to use edit to get in. So it's disabled for all but Premium users now. I don't blame him the bots are annoying.

[bridgman]

Yeah, spambots figured a way to use edit to get in.

Geez, I hope they didn't figure it out on their own. Otherwise we have a much bigger problem than not being able to edit forum posts...

[duby229]

Geez, I hope they didn't figure it out on their own. Otherwise we have much a bigger problem than not being able to edit forum posts...

Haha! Yeah well we all know behind every bot is a fat middle aged white guy in boxer shorts and a dirty wife beater...

[starshipeleven]

Haha! Yeah well we all know behind every bot is a fat middle aged white guy in boxer shorts and a dirty wife beater...

Nowadays with massive-multi-language frameworks like Selenium and browser automation APIs from Google (WebDriver) implemented in all major browsers, it's not terribly hard to make a simple web bot.
I'd say also script kiddies can do it pretty well.

[starshipeleven]

It's astonishing to see this driver growing so quickly. Well, I hope AMD will get that legal review done quickly. Otherwise I wonder how these two branches then will go together. It would be sad if any work was wasted.

Being Vulkan not the same as OpenGL, there is no problem in having two userspace drivers, one for OpenGL and one for Vulkan in the same system