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Re:AMD Inference by greenavocado on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @02:25PM (#41723601)
It's not just you; AMD manages to completely shit-up the Linux kernel with their drivers: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-5-Million-Lines
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Re:AMD Inference by striking on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @02:47PM (#41723819)
> Of course, much of that is auto-generated header files... A large portion of it with AMD continuing to introduce new auto-generated header files with each new generation/version of a given block. These verbose header files has been AMD's alternative to creating exhaustive public documentation on their GPUs that they were once known for.
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Re:AMD Inference by NekkoDroid on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @03:08PM (#41724013)
There have been talks about moving those headers to a separate repo and only including the needed headers upstream[1]

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3636

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Re:AMD Inference by anthk on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @02:38PM (#41723745)
OpenBSD, too.
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