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AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics


It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the 'Cyan Skillfish' support to some new APU devices.

It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the " Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices. A patch series was posted this week adding five additional PCI device IDs to the Cyan Skillfish family within the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. This also comes at a time when AMD Linux graphics driver engineers are already preparing a GFX1250 "RDNA 4.5" for next-gen APUs.

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