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AMD rationalized closed-source driver development as a defense against the release of hardware trade secrets.
by brandmeyer 5y ago
AMD rationalized closed-source driver development as a defense against the release of hardware trade secrets.
- flakiness 5y agoI thought they mostly open-sourced the GPU driver for Linux? I interpret it as a way to compete against(proprietary) CUDA dominance, but maybe that is wrong? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/dr...
- floatboth 5y agoYeah, and their main reason for some proprietary drivers existing is usually 3rd-party proprietary dependencies. E.g. they open sourced AMDVLK by starting with the closed Vulkan driver and replacing the proprietary compiler dependency with LLVM.
- brandmeyer 5y agoMuch of the AGESA code for booting the system remains hidden.