AMD officially drops Vulkan driver support for Polaris and Vega archs on Linux

Re:AMD officially drops Vulkan driver support for Polaris an... by evanjrowley on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:01PM (#38033852)

That is... sad. So my Vega 56 and re-flashed Mi25 won't be useful for gaming on Linux anymore?

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Re:AMD officially drops Vulkan driver support for Polaris an... by juliangoldsmith on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:05PM (#38034264)

I'd think they'd have support through Mesa's amdgpu backend.

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Re:AMD officially drops Vulkan driver support for Polaris an... by dotnet00 on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:10AM (#38035582)

My understanding is that they just wouldn't get updates, but existing drivers will keep working, and since they're open source, they should at least remain functional for some time.

But it still is a shame, Vega is not that old, and Polaris was very popular. I feel like they might be intentionally cutting them out to try to cause people who were satisfied with those to upgrade.

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Re:AMD officially drops Vulkan driver support for Polaris an... by RealStickman_ on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:23AM (#38036000)

This only affects the official AMD vulkan driver. Mesa's vulkan driver is still being supported, check if you're using that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38032124#38035968

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