File:Linux AMD graphics stack.svg

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Summary

Illustrates the current (as of August 2016) Linux device drivers for AMD hardware (cf. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon" class="extiw" title="en:Radeon">Radeon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_PowerTune" class="extiw" title="en:AMD PowerTune">PowerTune</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_System_Architecture" class="extiw" title="en:Heterogeneous System Architecture">HSA</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder" class="extiw" title="en:Unified Video Decoder">UVD</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Codec_Engine" class="extiw" title="en:Video Codec Engine">VCE</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_TrueAudio" class="extiw" title="en:AMD TrueAudio">TrueAudio</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Eyefinity" class="extiw" title="en:AMD Eyefinity">Eyefinity</a>, etc.).

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/commit/?h=drm-next&id=33f86ff62c4368c8d6bf3c76dc2fa416e3f902139">AMDKFD was mainlined into Linux kernel 3.19</a>
AMDGPU was mainlined into Linux kernel 4.2
2015-09-17 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2015/Program/deucher_zhou_amdgpu.pdf">at the XDC2015 Alex Deucher announced</a>, that AMD's only Vulkan and OpenCL drivers will work on top of amdgpu and will eventually be open-sourced and mainlined into Mesa. Their current proprietary OpenGL 4.5 driver will remain proprietary, will be ported to work in top of amdgpu and will be the only proprietary UMD. It will serve as an alternative to radeonsi.
2016-02-16 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)" class="extiw" title="en:Vulkan (API)">Vulkan 1.0</a> specification was officially released.
2016-03-18 AMD released a beta version of their proprietary UMD, that works on top of amdgpu instead of fgrlx.ko: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release-Notes.aspx">AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release</a>; it supports OpenGL 4.5, GLX 1.4, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan 1.0 and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU" class="extiw" title="en:VDPAU">VDPAU</a>
As of Linux kernel 4.5 amdgpu supports ​​KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) and ADF (Atomic Display Framework)! DAL (Display Abstraction Layer) was published back in 2015-09-21 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=DAL-wip">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=DAL-wip</a>) but has not been accepted into the Linux kernel mainline due to various issues.
2016-03-21 AMD relased a fully Vulkan 1.0 comliant driver, but only for Windows 7, Windows 8,1 and Windows 10, not for Linux: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/radeon-vulkan-beta.aspx">http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/radeon-vulkan-beta.aspx</a>
2016-04-12 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)" class="extiw" title="en:Mesa (computer graphics)">Mesa and radeonsi driver</a> received support for GL_ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior and is now fully OpenGL 4.2 compliant. Cf. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://mesamatrix.net/">https://mesamatrix.net/</a>

2016-08-01 AMD released <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/workstation?os=Linux+x86_64#catalyst-pro">AMD FirePro Software Suite</a>, based on fglrx.ko but only for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FirePro" class="extiw" title="en:AMD FirePro">AMD FirePro</a> hardware.

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current23:27, 5 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 23:27, 5 January 20171,280 × 720 (96 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Illustrates the current (as of August 2016) Linux device drivers for AMD hardware (cf. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon" class="extiw" title="en:Radeon">Radeon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_PowerTune" class="extiw" title="en:AMD PowerTune">PowerTune</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_System_Architecture" class="extiw" title="en:Heterogeneous System Architecture">HSA</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder" class="extiw" title="en:Unified Video Decoder">UVD</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Codec_Engine" class="extiw" title="en:Video Codec Engine">VCE</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_TrueAudio" class="extiw" title="en:AMD TrueAudio">TrueAudio</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Eyefinity" class="extiw" title="en:AMD Eyefinity">Eyefinity</a>, etc.).<br><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/commit/?h=drm-next&id=33f86ff62c4368c8d6bf3c76dc2fa416e3f902139">AMDKFD was mainlined into Linux kernel 3.19</a><br> AMDGPU was mainlined into Linux kernel 4.2<br> 2015-09-17 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2015/Program/deucher_zhou_amdgpu.pdf">at the XDC2015 Alex Deucher announced</a>, that AMD's only Vulkan and OpenCL drivers will work on top of amdgpu and will eventually be open-sourced and mainlined into Mesa. Their current proprietary OpenGL 4.5 driver will remain proprietary, will be ported to work in top of amdgpu and will be the only proprietary UMD. It will serve as an alternative to radeonsi.<br><b>2016-02-16</b> the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)" class="extiw" title="en:Vulkan (API)">Vulkan 1.0</a></b> specification was officially released.<br> 2016-03-18 AMD released a <i>beta</i> version of their proprietary UMD, that works on top of <code>amdgpu</code> instead of <code>fgrlx.ko</code>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release-Notes.aspx">AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release</a>; it supports OpenGL 4.5, GLX 1.4, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan 1.0 and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU" class="extiw" title="en:VDPAU">VDPAU</a><br> As of Linux kernel 4.5 <code>amdgpu</code> supports ​​KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) and ADF (Atomic Display Framework)! DAL (Display Abstraction Layer) was published back in 2015-09-21 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=DAL-wip">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=DAL-wip</a>) but has not been accepted into the Linux kernel mainline due to various issues.<br> 2016-03-21 AMD relased a fully Vulkan 1.0 comliant driver, but only for Windows 7, Windows 8,1 and Windows 10, not for Linux: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/radeon-vulkan-beta.aspx">http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/radeon-vulkan-beta.aspx</a><br> 2016-04-12 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)" class="extiw" title="en:Mesa (computer graphics)">Mesa and radeonsi driver</a> received support for <i>GL_ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior</i> and is now fully OpenGL 4.2 compliant. Cf. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://mesamatrix.net/">https://mesamatrix.net/</a><br></p> 2016-08-01 AMD released <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/workstation?os=Linux+x86_64#catalyst-pro">AMD FirePro Software Suite</a>, based on <code>fglrx.ko</code> but only for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FirePro" class="extiw" title="en:AMD FirePro">AMD FirePro</a> hardware.
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