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AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued

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102 points haunter | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 00:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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greatgib ◴[17 Sep 25 07:42 UTC] No.45272998[source]▶

   AMD is unifying its Linux Vulkan driver strategy and has decided to discontinue the AMDVLK open-source project, throwing our full support behind the RADV driver as the officially supported open-source Vulkan driver for Radeon™ graphics adapters.
Scary title but good news in the end I think.
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willvarfar ◴[17 Sep 25 07:58 UTC] No.45273114[source]▶
What level of support will they give RADV? Or is it just that AMD ultimately do less?
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1. arghwhat ◴[17 Sep 25 08:30 UTC] No.45273295[source]▶
They already work on radv, which is already the better vulkan driver.

This is a matter of AMD no longer wasting time on a pointless duplicate project no-one is really interested in. They can allocate more resources for amdgpu and radv and ultimately do less overall by getting rid of the redundant project.

Win-win.