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AMD NPU Firmware Upstreamed For The Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Coming In Linux 6.14
With the AMDXDNA kernel driver for Ryzen AI NPU support on Linux now ready for merging and is queued in drm-misc-next for the Linux 6.14 kernel early next year, the AMD NPU firmware binaries have also now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for having the necessary firmware support in place.
With the AMDXDNA kernel driver for Ryzen AI NPU support on Linux now ready for merging and is queued in drm-misc-next for the Linux 6.14 kernel early next year, the AMD NPU firmware binaries have also now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for having the necessary firmware support in place. These firmware binaries are needed by the open-source AMDXDNA kernel driver for actually being able to engage the neural processing unit. This should be the kernel version in use by Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, etc, so come next spring there should finally be nice out-of-the-box support for Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux.
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