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Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs
Timur Kristóf as a contractor on Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team is known for his work on the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler but recently he's been working on some improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver
A big feat he's been tackling is enabling support for analog display connectors within the AMDGPU driver for the "DC" code. Some Tonga and Hawaii graphics cards in fact have DVI-I connectors, and the analog part doesn't work by default. Currently, SI (GFX6) and CIK (GFX7) don't use amdgpu by default yet, and missing analog connector support is cited as one of the main reasons why not.
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