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AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems

The modern AMD kernel graphics driver 'AMDGPU' is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU

But this AMDGPU kernel driver is becoming "really really big" that it's beginning to cause issues for Plymouth that commonly provides the initial boot splash screen experience on modern Linux desktops. Longtime Red Hat Linux desktop engineer Hans de Goede posted a public service announcement to his blog this weekend about a number of recent bug reports around the boot splash screen not appearing when using the AMDGPU driver. But in recent years the AMDGPU driver has only continued to grow much larger in supporting newer GPUs and tacking on additional features and optimizations.

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