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DescriptionLinux AMD graphics stack.svg	English: Illustrates the current (as of August 2016) Linux device drivers for AMD hardware (cf. Radeon, PowerTune HSA, UVD, VCE, TrueAudio, Eyefinity, etc.). AMDKFD was mainlined into Linux kernel 3.19 AMDGPU was mainlined into Linux kernel 4.2 2015-09-17 at the XDC2015 Alex Deucher announced, 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 Vulkan 1.0 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`: AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release; it supports OpenGL 4.5, GLX 1.4, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan 1.0 and VDPAU 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 (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=DAL-wip) 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: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/radeon-vulkan-beta.aspx 2016-04-12 Mesa and radeonsi driver received support for GL_ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior and is now fully OpenGL 4.2 compliant. Cf. https://mesamatrix.net/ 2016-08-01 AMD released AMD FirePro Software Suite, based on `fglrx.ko` but only for AMD FirePro hardware. 2017-12-23 amdvlk is found at https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK
Date	20 January 2015
Source	Own work
Author	ScotXW

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:40, 24 October 2020	1,280 × 720 (78 KB)	FunkyMartian	This is for AMD-branded hardware only, not ATI hardware which is covered by the r200 driver
	13:29, 23 December 2017	1,280 × 720 (91 KB)	ScotXW	insert AMDVLK https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK
	10:33, 2 July 2017	1,280 × 720 (96 KB)	ScotXW
	12:55, 6 September 2016	1,280 × 720 (96 KB)	ScotXW	make it better?
	07:49, 14 May 2016	1,280 × 720 (99 KB)	ScotXW	amdgpu received support for GCN 1.0, planed to be mainlined into Linux 4.8
	07:25, 13 April 2016	1,280 × 720 (99 KB)	ScotXW	Mesa's <code>radeonsi</code> now fully OpenGL 4.2 compliant: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=10cfd7a6045ffbfd0debf66d2dfd2caeeb559951
	09:44, 19 March 2016	1,280 × 720 (99 KB)	ScotXW	http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release-Notes.aspx AMD Radeon™ Software AMD GPU-PRO Beta Driver – Linux® for Vulkan™
	10:30, 16 March 2016	1,280 × 720 (99 KB)	ScotXW	and another update… AMD should can their marketing department and have some more people work on software supporting THEIR hardware
	16:04, 16 January 2016	1,280 × 720 (99 KB)	ScotXW	put in radeon and fglrx.ko to make things look really complicated
	12:56, 3 August 2015	1,280 × 720 (84 KB)	ScotXW	add Vulkan and some numbers