The AMD Vulkan Linux Driver will be open sourced before Xmas, according to a report from Linux-focussed tech site Phoronix. Apparently Linux users have been waiting for this patiently for nearly two years, since the debut of Vulkan 1.0. Between then and now the AMD Vulkan driver?s source has been closed.
The slide below came in the Adrenalin driver press deck but Phoronix highlights that the open sourcing is not of this driver but of the Vulkan driver. In the next few days the open source driver should appear on Github, under the GPUOpen umbrella. Pondering over the slide you can see that AMD reckons its release will accelerate Vulkan development on Linux, help with fast support for new AMD hardware as it is released, provide Linux devs with access to the Radeon GPU Porfiler tool set, make it eacy to integrate AMD?s Vulkan extensions, and enabled third party contributions.
Phoronix notes that the full-featured Vulkan driver that AMD has been investing in the past two or more years will be open-sourced and that it is not a driver living within Mesa ? it has its own code base and interfaces with libdrm / AMDGPU DRM / LLVM directly.
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