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The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines
Last August I wrote an article about the open-source AMD GPU kernel driver crossing 5 million lines of code -- including their overzealous header files -- and following the recent Linux 6.11 merge window curiosity got the best of me with how much larger the kernel driver is now that the initial RDNA4 support is merged..
Last August I wrote an article about the open-source AMD GPU kernel driver crossing 5 million lines of code -- including their overzealous header files -- and following the recent Linux 6.11 merge window curiosity got the best of me with how much larger the kernel driver is now that the initial RDNA4 support is merged... Well, it's about to cross 5.8 million lines, or about a 16% increase just over the past year. Around 16% growth over the past year with since then the RDNA3.5 and RDNA4 support being added along with many other additions to the AMD kernel graphics driver code. This also doesn't include all of the AMD user-space code like within Mesa, the AMDVLK driver, ROCm, etc.
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