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<td>Initial release of AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan</td>
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<td>Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:04:30 +0000</td>
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<td>Mao, David <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:David.Mao@amd.com"><David.Mao@amd.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"><dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org></a></td>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">We are pleased to announce the initial
release of AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan is
an open-source Vulkan driver for Radeon graphics adapters on
Linux. It is built on top of AMD's Platform Abstraction
Library (PAL), a shared component that is designed to
encapsulate certain hardware and OS-specific programming
details for many of AMD's 3D and compute drivers. Leveraging
PAL can help provide a consistent experience across platforms,
including support for recently released GPUs and compatibility
with AMD developer tools.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The driver uses the LLVM-Based Pipeline
Compiler (LLPC) library to compile shaders that compose a
particular VkPipeline object. LLPC builds on LLVM's existing
shader compilation infrastructure for AMD GPUs to generate
code objects compatible with PAL's pipeline ABI.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan is
designed to support the following features:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Vulkan 1.0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- More than 30 extensions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Radeon GPUProfiler tracing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Built-in debug and profiling tools<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Mid-command buffer preemption and
SR-IOV virtualization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The following features and improvements
are planned in future releases:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Upcoming versions of the Vulkan API<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Hardware performance counter
collection through RenderDoc<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- LLPC optimizations to improve
GPU-limited performance and compile time<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Optimizations to improve CPU-limited
performance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Please refer to the README file under <a
href="https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK"
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https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK</a> for more
information. Looking forward to hearing your feedback.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The AMD driver team for Vulkan<o:p></o:p></p>
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