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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.dev · 8 months ago

AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines

www.tomshardware.com

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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines

www.tomshardware.com

Nemeski@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.dev · 8 months ago
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Graphical boot menus are timing out before AMDGPU can load.
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    At least two. Or make it with modules and only load the necessary one.

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      Right; any solution they come up with presumably needs to be more scalable than “new drivers” and “old drivers”. Eventually there will be too large a set of “old drivers” and we’ll end up in the same situation with a small “new drivers” driver and a large “old drivers” blob.

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        A different driver set for each chip architecture maybe?

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          Maybe; it does sound like reducing the size of the driver is potentially possible as well https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Headers-Repo-Idea

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