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Valve's Linux Graphics Engineers Begin Prepping RADV Driver For AMD RDNA4 "GFX12"


The open-source Mesa driver developers employed by Valve for working on the Linux graphics stack have begun preparing the RADV Vulkan driver and the ACO compiler back-end for the upcoming 'GFX12' graphics IP for next-generation RDNA4.

The open-source Mesa driver developers employed by Valve for working on the Linux graphics stack have begun preparing the RADV Vulkan driver and the ACO compiler back-end for the upcoming "GFX12" graphics IP for next-generation RDNA4. Yesterday well known RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve opened this merge request with small preliminary changes to be done before adding the GFX12 support:"A bunch of context register moved on GFX12 and this MR contains small changes to simplify adding GFX12 support." Over on the kernel side, the new AMD IP blocks continue to be enabled within the AMDGPU and AMDKFD drivers.

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