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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by ptx on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:23PM (#24749615)
Right. But here the generated code is checked into the source tree and the code generator is kept proprietary, which is why it's sad and unmaintainable.
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by unionpivo on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:55AM (#24752324)
Code generator probably runs of their verilog/hdl source of the chips. It probably relies (or is build on top of) on proprietary EDA tools.

Without open sourcing their chips, it would probably be useless.

Even if you work for chip maker, that is what you usually get from hardware guys, so we are probably getting the same as AMD own driver programmers.

\s Welcome to wonderful world of driver development at majority of hardware houses \s

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by ptx on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:08AM (#24753234)
They could still separate the extraction of the data (keeping it proprietary) from the code generation. The latter could work off of the extracted data kept in a more sensible format.
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