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Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release

Back in May was the surprise but welcoming decision out of AMD that they would begin officially supporting the Mesa Vulkan driver (RADV) and that their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers would no longer be included in their Radeon Software for Linux releases

In addition, for multimedia support the Mesa VA-API code is recommended with AMD's Advanced Media Framework (AMF) also to be no longer included. That's quite a long time for a driver that previously used to see updates on a weekly to monthly basis and at least once a quarter in worst case scenarios. XGL, and LLPC code under AMDVLK also haven't been touched since April~May, it looks safe to say now that AMD is placing all their cards with RADV for Linux use.

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