AMD vs. Intel Contributions To The Linux Kernel Over The Past Decade

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD vs. Intel Contributions To The Linux Kernel Over The Past Decade

Driven by curiosity sake, here is a look at how the total number of AMD and Intel developers contributed to the upstream Linux kernel during the 2010s as well as the total number of commits each year from the respective hardware vendors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Intel-2010s-Kernel-Contrib

[Peter Fodrek]

What about lines changes statistics

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By changesets
Intel 1714 12.2%
Red Hat 1048 7.4%
(Unknown) 931 6.6%
AMD 859 6.1%

By lines changed
AMD 229309 25.3%
Intel 75357 8.3%
Linaro 66064 7.3%
(Consultant) 51674 5.7%
Red Hat 39670 4.4%

https://lwn.net/Articles/804119/

AMD´s commits are bigger then Intel´s

6.1% of commits but 25.3% of lines changed for AMD
but 12.2% of commits but 8.3% of lines changed for Intel

https://lwn.net/Articles/804119/

[Danny3]

This is good, but AMD with its success on both ends, the CPUs and GPUs, they need to hire more developers to improve the kernel's performance on their products.
Also, bring the damn control panel to Linux or make SR-IOV work with their GPUs. I'm curios if there's a possibility in that case to control the GPU from the Windows control panel in a VM.
I want to hear that all the money I have invested in all these last years into buying their products are put to good use for the FOSS.

[geearf]

With Intel being so much bigger than AMD, getting to 50% is already pretty damn impressive I think.

[AJenbo]

Maybe next time make AMD the red one in the charts Blue might be a good color for Intel

[torsionbar28]

It takes $$$ to hire coders and AMD is a lot smaller than intel. The AMD code contributions align perfectly with the Zen CPU launch. Glad to see they're investing some of that Zen cash back into Linux.

[Mez']

Statistics can always be deceiving, of course. But what is interesting here is the trend.

AMD seems to be closing the gap. Coming from a 1/10th to a 1/2. That's quite a noticeable improvement.

[flower]

This is good, but AMD with its success on both ends, the CPUs and GPUs, they need to hire more developers to improve the kernel's performance on their products.
Also, bring the damn control panel to Linux or make SR-IOV work with their GPUs. I'm curios if there's a possibility in that case to control the GPU from the Windows control panel in a VM.
I want to hear that all the money I have invested in all these last years into buying their products are put to good use for the FOSS.

afaik amdgpu-pro does support SR-IOV
sadly i dont think we'll see that feature on consumer hardware in the near future

[wizard69]

This is good, but AMD with its success on both ends, the CPUs and GPUs, they need to hire more developers to improve the kernel's performance on their products.
Also, bring the damn control panel to Linux or make SR-IOV work with their GPUs. I'm curios if there's a possibility in that case to control the GPU from the Windows control panel in a VM.
I want to hear that all the money I have invested in all these last years into buying their products are put to good use for the FOSS.

I think this charting shows you exactly what you are asking for. As the company has turned around they have more people committing. If they can deliver this year (all the promised new products), I can see a lot more effort flowing into software development for all platforms.

Frankly I just went out and bought a new AMD based system because I really believe that they are in recovery mode. It is frankly the time to further support the platform because it can only get better as software gets the attention profits allow.

[wizard69]

It takes $$$ to hire coders and AMD is a lot smaller than intel. The AMD code contributions align perfectly with the Zen CPU launch. Glad to see they're investing some of that Zen cash back into Linux.

It surprises me that people don't see this. I'm not going to say that their allocation of employees is perfect but cash does mean new programmers and frankly those programmers take time to get up to speed. If AMD maintains its advantages into 2021 I suspect we will see a massive increase in driver and tools quality.