AMD Has A Vulkan Linux Driver, But Will Be Closed-Source At First

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Has A Vulkan Linux Driver, But Will Be Closed-Source At First

One of the most anticipated talks of XDC2015 Toronto was the update on AMDGPU / the open-source Linux driver strategy... Vulkan details were revealed!

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=22168

[bulletxt]

"In the future they intend to focus more on open-source than closed-source."

Its like 12 years I hear AMD saying bullshit, they never get the damn thing finished. They are uncapable of putting on the market a finished product from A to Z. They keep promising Open Source drivers, but the truth is that by the time they get a 95% finished driver for your card the card is already old. So then you go and by a new card but the driver is unfinished, so they'll tell you the driver is under work.

It's like a circle, they never get you the product 100% working in no way, however you put it.

[brad0]

It could be worse. You could be an NVIDIA user. Get back to me when they're finally providing open source drivers.

[dungeon]

The Future Is Fusion.

If you are opensource customer then you are covered and if you are closed source customer then you are also covered - all are happy.

Good job AMD

And now to start quoting

It's like a circle, they never get you the product 100% working in no way, however you put it.

That is how it is, you can calling it circle or whatever, but they need and trying to serve both customers - why don't you accept that reallity is a an actual question?

[justmy2cents]

"In the future they intend to focus more on open-source than closed-source."

Its like 12 years I hear AMD saying bullshit, they never get the damn thing finished. They are uncapable of putting on the market a finished product from A to Z. They keep promising Open Source drivers, but the truth is that by the time they get a 95% finished driver for your card the card is already old. So then you go and by a new card but the driver is unfinished, so they'll tell you the driver is under work.

It's like a circle, they never get you the product 100% working in no way, however you put it.

i wouldn't be so critical. based on the fact that GDC PowerVR demo driver was written by 2 developers in 2 weeks and playing out whole GLES demo , Vulkan on amd probably won't take years as OpenGL. note that when LunarG had AMA on reddit one question was how much code is in Intel Vulkan driver

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...teamos/cpbprq3

whole AMA is pretty interesting read.

[asdfblah]

AMD customers (companies and people) could benefit from open-sourcing their code, so that people can use their hardware in different ways... just like many companies already benefit from using Linux with their hardware. Also, AMD could benefit from volunteers, as it has done so in the past.
Why didn't AMD do this before, and why they insist on distributing closed-source software?

[boffo]

AMD customers (companies and people) could benefit from open-sourcing their code, so that people can use their hardware in different ways... just like many companies already benefit from using Linux with their hardware. Also, AMD could benefit from volunteers, as it has done so in the past.
Why didn't AMD do this before, and why they insist on distributing closed-source software?

Why are there still closed source components?
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Certain customers need certain key features today
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Workstation features
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OpenGL 4.5
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OpenCL
?

[kernelOfTruth]

It's like a circle, they never get you the product 100% working in no way, however you put it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4Crth_Hb8 Will the Circle be Unbroken ...

[andre30correia]

easy to understand, big names like nvidia, amd, intel, apple, m$ steal code and use others code and they simply can open the source code without having legal problems

[xpris]

AMD devs, any hope for Vulkan support on Catalyst or open source driver for Radeon HD 5800 series?