Re:AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Har...
by NekkoDroid on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @10:04AM
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> AMD's opensource drivers are mostly a shim that wrap firmware blobs
I went and checked the size of AMDs vs NVs firmware blobs and the 2 GSP firmware that are used for new NV cards in the linux-firmware package (https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/linux-firmware as references for what I checked) result in it being the single largest folder in there (40MiB). Compare that to the largest amdgpu firmware file which is at 392KiB with the entire folder of 562 items being <20MiB.
Not to say that AMDs firmware is open source or so, it certainly isn't, but even comparing the amount that is possibly done is somewhat laughable.
I went and checked the size of AMDs vs NVs firmware blobs and the 2 GSP firmware that are used for new NV cards in the linux-firmware package (https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/linux-firmware as references for what I checked) result in it being the single largest folder in there (40MiB). Compare that to the largest amdgpu firmware file which is at 392KiB with the entire folder of 562 items being <20MiB.
Not to say that AMDs firmware is open source or so, it certainly isn't, but even comparing the amount that is possibly done is somewhat laughable.