That is exactly what I thought is going to happen when I saw RADV news for the first time - that we are going to have two not-so-good AMD open source Vulkan drivers instead of one better driver. Having two drivers is not twice better... They shouldn't be competing but rather unite but it seems to be very unlikely...
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Originally posted by faldzip View PostThat is exactly what I thought is going to happen when I saw RADV news for the first time - that we are going to have two not-so-good AMD open source Vulkan drivers instead of one better driver. Having two drivers is not twice better... They shouldn't be competing but rather unite but it seems to be very unlikely...
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Well AMDVLK made a huge leap in terms of performance and compatibility.
This wasnt the case the last time Michael made a comparison.
So maybe the time has come to speak about suspending Radv and let amdvlk integrate into Mesa. Cause while Radv is marvelous work and has very good reason to exist over the last years simply because AMD was too late and amdvlk wasnt mature enough, it doesnt make sense to offer multiple implementations and develop an extra driver which simply doesnt share the same code base among Windows and Linux. Duplicating efforts is not needed and history shows that every driver needs extensive testing. So every manpower available is badly needed.
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Originally posted by Strunkenbold View PostWell AMDVLK made a huge leap in terms of performance and compatibility.
This wasnt the case the last time Michael made a comparison.
So maybe the time has come to speak about suspending Radv and let amdvlk integrate into Mesa. Cause while Radv is marvelous work and has very good reason to exist over the last years simply because AMD was too late and amdvlk wasnt mature enough, it doesnt make sense to offer multiple implementations and develop an extra driver which simply doesnt share the same code base among Windows and Linux. Duplicating efforts is not needed and history shows that every driver needs extensive testing. So every manpower available is badly needed.
But people are saying it's not so easy for outsiders to contribute. So the guys from Red Hat, Valve, Feral etc prefer working on RadV...
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Originally posted by edoantonioco View PostWhy do we need RADV when we already have the official opensource implementation AMDVLK? RADV devs should just drop the development of it and help AMDVLK instead. There is no reason to have 2 opensource drivers and split efforts.
All of this specially considering how the propietary driver is faster, they are in no position to affort reinventing the hot water with 2 opensource drivers.## VGA ##
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostA lot of effort went into the amdvlk release, where AMD had to refactor their driver to allow them to opensource it
and lol, you are talking like opensourcing is not useful in itself. all software should be opensourced, it makes it better from technical pov
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postbut surely less than went into radv to write it from scratch
and lol, you are talking like opensourcing is not useful in itself. all software should be opensourced, it makes it better from technical povLast edited by duby229; 06 October 2018, 08:25 AM.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postbut surely less than went into radv to write it from scratch
and lol, you are talking like opensourcing is not useful in itself. all software should be opensourced, it makes it better from technical pov
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