Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format…

Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers

Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux open-source graphics driver team isn’t done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series… https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DRM-Format-Modifiers-GCN