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RADV Enables Vulkan Video By Default For RDNA3 / VCN4 GPUs
With Mesa's RADV driver supporting Vulkan Video for accelerated video encode/decode using this cross-platform, industry standard API it hasn't been exposed by default for RDNA3 graphics processors bearing VCN4 IP
The new Mesa code adds support for events to Vulkan Video queues on the latest graphics firmware. The RDNA2 support remains off by default and there is no word from AMD yet when they may be providing updated firmware for the video events compatibility. This merge for Mesa 24.3 is what takes the RADV Vulkan Video support over the finish line for RDNA3 hardware paired with running the latest AMDGPU firmware files from linux-firmware.git.
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