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AMD have announced that they are working on a big driver update. The Linux driver will support FreeSync and have wider support for their different GPUs.
From the presentation:
Those look like the only real new things the Linux driver will get, as those two slides are the only time we are specifically mentioned.
Going by the slides, it sounds like it's an update that will use their newer AMDGPU driver. From the way it's presented, I would imagine FreeSync would only be supported on the proprietary part.
It includes tons of Windows-only stuff too, like an updater, support for capturing gameplay and more. Not really interesting to us though, so I won't go over all the other Windows-specific stuff.
It's worth noting, that this was supposed to be under an NDA until December 8th (it says it in the smallprint in the footer), so someone leaked this out, which is why you I can't find any official word from AMD on it.
Thanks reddit. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
From the presentation:
Those look like the only real new things the Linux driver will get, as those two slides are the only time we are specifically mentioned.
Going by the slides, it sounds like it's an update that will use their newer AMDGPU driver. From the way it's presented, I would imagine FreeSync would only be supported on the proprietary part.
It includes tons of Windows-only stuff too, like an updater, support for capturing gameplay and more. Not really interesting to us though, so I won't go over all the other Windows-specific stuff.
It's worth noting, that this was supposed to be under an NDA until December 8th (it says it in the smallprint in the footer), so someone leaked this out, which is why you I can't find any official word from AMD on it.
Thanks reddit. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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cRaZy-bisCuiT Dec 7, 2016
Quoting: masterandreasdoes that mean support for GCN 1.1 and 1.0 GPUS?Yes.
FreeSync is coming to Linux - and as mentioned above several times, they might get it up and running with the DC code within the 4.12 merge window.
AMD sent out those patches several times in the past but it got rejected by the kernel developers for some good reason: The code is messy and bloated. They slimmed it down quite heavily already and sent it in again. In the end AMDGPU and AMDGPU-PRO will benefit from the recent code refactoring.
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Luke_Nukem Dec 7, 2016
Can we kill that fucking penguin already? We desperately need a better, more professional logo of some sort - not a decades old mascot that looks exactly like it is decades old.
Logo! Not Mascot! (for the professional environments) Leave the mascot to plushies and fans.
Logo! Not Mascot! (for the professional environments) Leave the mascot to plushies and fans.
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cRaZy-bisCuiT Dec 8, 2016
There is a guy from Youtube [0] that compiled the 4.7 kernel + DAL for Arch [1]. I did not try it yet but he said audio over HDMI is working. Since I don't have FreeSync displays I can't check if that is working.
Please keep in mind it's a pre-compiled kernel - use it at your own risk. I don't garantuee it's virus free since I don't know that guy.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry_klS9vwj4
[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-S6einraYmXVERvTENsX3ljZDQ?pageId=105427087875279588053
Please keep in mind it's a pre-compiled kernel - use it at your own risk. I don't garantuee it's virus free since I don't know that guy.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry_klS9vwj4
[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-S6einraYmXVERvTENsX3ljZDQ?pageId=105427087875279588053
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Using a DAL/DC Patched Kernel right now - it's great. It's for available for Fedora from this copr here
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