Planned Vega support in Linux

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Aug 9 01:38:23 UTC 2017


On 09/08/17 05:12 AM, David Niklas wrote:
> I know that currently some form of headless support already exists, but
> then I'd have to use crossfire (which does not work with the opensource
> driver AFAIK).

You don't need CrossFire to make use of a GPU in a headless fashion.
OpenCL should support that out of the box, and in X the GPU can be used
for OpenGL apps via RandR 1.4 render offloading (obviously, you'll need
another GPU in the system that X can use for output).


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Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer

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