AMDVLK Official Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Updated

[dungeon]

Extremely unlikely to happen.

We have a lot extremists to wishlist utter hard to near impossible things

Now that important bits are open sourced I hope AMD makes radeonSI cross platform and replace their closed source GL driver with it. This would bring a lot symmetry between their pro and non pro driver stack and hopefully save lots of amd cash.

Extreme hope must be extreme healty, with that in mind you could live 120 years minimum

[bridgman]

Remember that the main reason for keeping the closed source driver is that it supports compatibility profiles (including tested support for the combinations of deprecated and new functionality that real-world CAD apps actually use), while Mesa does not support compatibility profiles past 3.x.

[BNieuwenhuizen]

bridgman Any chance to get the info on the vendor specific part of the windows kernel interface of the AMD driver?

[davidbepo]

Remember that the main reason for keeping the closed source driver is that it supports compatibility profiles (including tested support for the combinations of deprecated and new functionality that real-world CAD apps actually use), while Mesa does not support compatibility profiles past 3.x.

there was a patch by marek to get 3.1 compat support
why it isn't mainline?

[LinuxID10T]

You can easily have multiple Vulkan ICD on your computer and pick the one you want to use when starting an app, it's not a problem.

How do you do that if you mind me asking?

[computerquip]

How do you do that if you mind me asking?

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers/blob/master/loader/LoaderAndLayerInterface.md#installable-client-drivers

[geearf]

How do you do that if you mind me asking?

VK_ICD_FILENAMES=<pathtoICD> <program>

The app itself could ask of course.

[nuetzel]

there was a patch by marek to get 3.1 compat support
why it isn't mainline?

It's NOT ready, yet and Marek had some other things to do.

[Almindor]

You can easily have multiple Vulkan ICD on your computer and pick the one you want to use when starting an app, it's not a problem.

It is a major problem if you're a game engine developer that has only so much time to support one or the other.

[geearf]

It is a major problem if you're a game engine developer that has only so much time to support one or the other.

It is quite far from being a major problem.

And even then, since the 2 drivers can be installed side by side, nothing prevents you from only supporting one of them and telling your users to use that one.
That's pretty much what they do with distributions already.