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AMD has updated their Linux Open Source Driver for Vulkan.



v-2022.Q3.4: 2022-9-13 update

The AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan:registered: is an open-source Vulkan driver for Radeon:tm: graphics adapters on Linux:registered:. It is built on top of AMD's Platform Abstraction Library (PAL), a shared component that is designed to encapsulate certain hardware and OS-specific programming details for many of AMD's 3D and compute drivers. Leveraging PAL can help provide a consistent experience across platforms, including support for recently released GPUs and compatibility with AMD developer tools.

Shaders that compose a particular VkPipeline object are compiled as a single entity using the LLVM-Based Pipeline Compiler (LLPC) library. LLPC builds on LLVM's existing shader compilation infrastructure for AMD GPUs to generate code objects compatible with PAL's pipeline ABI. Notably, AMD's closed-source Vulkan driver currently uses a different pipeline compiler, which is the major difference between AMD's open-source and closed-source Vulkan drivers.

Vulkan

New feature and improvement

* Add 64bit raytracing support for Navi2x
* Update Vulkan Headers to 1.3.225
* Performance tuning for games: World War Z, AshesOfTheSingularity

Issue fix

* New version CTS failure in dEQP-VK.api.copy_and_blit.*.resolve_image.whole_copy_before_resolving_transfer.*
* CTS warning in dEQP-VK.pipeline.creation_cache_control.*
* VulkanInfo crash with pipeline cache disabled
* RGP test kit failure on RX 6800
* Firefox corruption on Ubuntu 22.04

v-2022.Q3.4: 2022-9-13 update