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RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support
With the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle, the RISC-V architecture code is seeing kernel-mode FPU
In turn this should allow recent AMD Radeon graphics cards to work on RISC-V with display support using the company's open-source driver stack. Queued into Andrew Morton's mm.git mm-everything branch ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window next month is the patch enabling the kernel-mode FPU for RISC-V. The patch from SiFive notes:"This is motivated by the amdgpu DRM driver, which needs floating-point code to support recent hardware.
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