It's going to be interesting to see what happens with radv now. Personally, I don't see much of a reason to keep it going.
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AMD open sources their Vulkan driver
Jacob Barnes
Jonathan Long
It doesn't require a fucking forked LLVM.
Luke Foster
So did AMD just win? What is the point in getting an Nvidia card for Linux anymore?
Jack Flores
CUDA. And that is almost literally it now that Mesa's OpenGL stack is actually pretty decent.
Colton Lewis
Where is the source? Is it ==FREE== software?
Eli Sullivan
Seems so. Permissive license probably,
Easton Nelson
So, what happens to radv? Seems a waste just to throw it away when it was just getting to learn how to walk.
Daniel Davis
Might remain as Mesa's standard Vulkan implemenation, but I seriously doubt it'll get the same amount of support and development it has to this point.
Alexander Hughes
When are other porters besides Feral going to start using Vulkan? When is Wine?
Robert Taylor
Feral mostly uses Vulkan for wrappers, don't they?
Anthony King
According to Ryan "Cuck" Gordan, it's easier writing asm than vulkan. No one wants to use it over opengl. You might see some aaa games provide as an option but that's about it.
Brody Cook
Croteam is using Vulkan on Linux. Vulkan is even lower level than the Gallium API, so it's way-way better than OpenGL for wrappers too.
Jordan Brooks
He really does talk about politics way too fucking much these days.
Leo Hughes
it wasn't open before? i thought that was it's pitch: open, easy, portable
Benjamin Ward
radv was/is the current standard implementation of Vulkan in the open drivers.
Noah Hill
the vast majority of "aaa" games don't write their own engines anyway, they use unity or unreal engine or some other big existing engine, which will inevitably support vulkan, so the game will by proxy.
Tyler Smith
If only the Godot devs weren't being such faggots about Vulkan.
Jace Smith
Can I finally run OpenCL accelerated programs on Linux with my Tahiti card?
Mason Rivera
What did he mean by this?
Julian Stewart
inb4 Nvidia steals the code and puts it in their proprietary closed source alternative raking in revenue from gamers that put water cooling on a GPU they won't overclock.
Lets celebrate the two major projects where the Vulkan drivers are used and makes somewhat of an impact but Nvidia GPUs have support for it so no one notices the difference between the GPU wars.
QEMU and Wine, hip hip hurrah.
Tyler Butler
Who cares about the gpu if your still tied to a botnet CPU.
Jacob Collins
Does it still requires bobs ?
Kevin Perez
what an abomination
you could still use your corebooted opteron setup though.
you do have that, don't you, user?
Isaiah Cooper
I think you have to at least have an R9 card to get the benefit from this.
Landon Carter
Yes. The driver is 100% (cuck licensed) OSS, but like everything else now, there is some signed firmware you need for 3d to work.
Ryan Carter
It's cuck licesed, but that's still unlikely given how much Nvidia invests in their custom sauce. More likely is that radv and even Nouveau benefit from this though.
Christopher James
Don't use intel, famalam.
Isaac Adams
closed-sourced open-source software, my favourite
still better than intel