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    Phoronix: Watch David Airlie Talk About Vulkan & RADV From LCA2017

    Last week at Linux.Conf.Au 2017 was a presentation by David Airlie, the Linux kernel DRM subsystem maintainer, Red Hat developer, and RADV Vulkan driver developer, among other hats. At this year's Linux conference in Australia he gave a nice presentation on Vulkan and the RADV driver work...

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    "We have a benchmark from Phoronix, which is not the most reliable site, but in one benchmark that he got running we were faster than the AMD driver. I didn't trust it but I'm willing to take any win at this point."
    - David Airlie @ 37:14

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    • #3
      Originally posted by johanb View Post
      "We have a benchmark from Phoronix, which is not the most reliable site, but in one benchmark that he got running we were faster than the AMD driver. I didn't trust it but I'm willing to take any win at this point."
      - David Airlie @ 37:14
      Any publicity is good publicity

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      • #4
        Interesting video. David Airlie didn't quite put it that way, but he appears to say that Vulkan is a good fit for Linux, as the successor to OpenGL in the future (not just as an additional API).

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        • #5
          Great talk David. I didn't make it to LCA this year, so I've got a lot of videos to watch.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by indepe View Post
            Interesting video. David Airlie didn't quite put it that way, but he appears to say that Vulkan is a good fit for Linux, as the successor to OpenGL in the future (not just as an additional API).
            Of course it is … it's royalty-free (though certification will cost you unless you are a significant OSS project like Mesa), it's portable, easy to implement (so less barrier for open source implementations as seen in the video with RADV) and leaves less room for drivers to hide „secret sauce” which generally benefits closed-source implementations.

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            • #7
              The hypocrite. First he sides with ATI on destroying a proper open source display driver, then he acts like the big savior a few years down the road, when ATI is unpopular once again. Unbelievable. Powerplay all the way.

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              • #8
                If NIR is converted to LLVM IR before optimisation is applied, why NIR is needed in the first place? It is better to convert SPIRV to LLVM IR directly, isn't it?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by debianxfce View Post
                  I did found one bug
                  link?

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                  • #10
                    Good sportsmanship by Michael posting this even though he dissed Phoronix.

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