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[bridgman]

I guess it depends on what you mean by "open source" - it might be possible to do a technically open source release like that - source code...

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We have not abandoned OpenCL - it's just another language that runs on the ROCm framework, like HIP and HCC....

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Yes and no. Vendors become able to provide open source drivers by moving sensitive things like content protection into firmware. If they then open up...

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In fairness, dwagner has put a lot of effort into careful bug reporting, interacting with developers and testing potential fixes. I'm starting to think...

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Libre distros require more than "hardware that works with free software"... they also require that all closed source microcode be burned into...

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Not exactly... the amdgpu kernel driver added some functionality so that it could support the closed source userspace drivers, but it does not implement...

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Michael did include a number of single-threaded benchmarks and called them out specifically - apparently Tiger Lake was slower than Ice Lake in many of...

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The AMD driver stack uses an upstream open-source kernel and open source userspace with optional proprietary userspace components. All (or at least most...

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IIRC you can for anything up to Polaris, ie not Vega or newer....

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Not necessarily performance gains, but you get the ability to run Vulkan apps....

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I think you are right. I don't remember fglrx numbers offhand (but can probably find the old repo next week) but from what I do remember I'm pretty sure...

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Part of the SOC15 idea (rebuilding the chips around IP blocks connected by data fabric) was to reduce the duplication you saw. For the last few generations...

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I wouldn't expect to find Renoir in your local computer store since we aren't selling them into retail yet. The 3200G and 3400G should be pretty widely...

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Yep... X11 colour list (sorry for the spelling, I'm Canadian) plus Wikipedia's list of common fish names:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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I think it's fair to say that the ideal situation for us would be to get upstream support in place *without* any media attention. The less attention there...

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That's one of the reasons we have our own code names specific to Linux SW - it gives us a chance to get a name cleared for use before we start writing...

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The only time we had a problem was on a troubleshooting call a couple of months ago - one of the engineers mentioned that he thought a particular line...

[bridgman]

Interest in using llvm as a shader compiler goes right back to 2007 - it was part of the initial rollout of Gallium3D and TGSI at XDS.

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This is the closest that I know about:

https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumCompute/...

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Looks like the article has been updated and now reads very cleanly.

For a long time a Motorola 68010 or higher plus a paged MMU was pretty...