AMD’s Linux GPU patches seven Vega 10s

Stefan Mileschin · 23rd March 2017, 13:29

40,000 lines of code changed

AMD has issued 100 Linux GPU patches for seven of its Vega 10 GPUs.

These 100 patches add up to 40,000 lines of code and have been sent out today for review. The idea is that AMD will use them as the basis to provide "Vega 10" support within the Linux AMDGPU DRM driver.

To be fair this is not a small task and there is some cudos for AMD for undertaking it. But the chipmaker wants to make sure that AMDGPU has Vega support and there were shedloads of changes over Polaris and other recent GPUs.

For example there is a new video BIOS interface, new hardware intellectual property, support for video decode using UVD (UVD 7.0), support for video encode using VCE (VCE 4.0), support for 3D via RadeonSI, power management, full display support using DC, and support for SR-IOV virtualization.
http://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/43...seven-vega-10s

23rd March 2017, 13:29	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,514	AMD’s Linux GPU patches seven Vega 10s 40,000 lines of code changed AMD has issued 100 Linux GPU patches for seven of its Vega 10 GPUs. These 100 patches add up to 40,000 lines of code and have been sent out today for review. The idea is that AMD will use them as the basis to provide "Vega 10" support within the Linux AMDGPU DRM driver. To be fair this is not a small task and there is some cudos for AMD for undertaking it. But the chipmaker wants to make sure that AMDGPU has Vega support and there were shedloads of changes over Polaris and other recent GPUs. For example there is a new video BIOS interface, new hardware intellectual property, support for video decode using UVD (UVD 7.0), support for video encode using VCE (VCE 4.0), support for 3D via RadeonSI, power management, full display support using DC, and support for SR-IOV virtualization. http://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/43...seven-vega-10s

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