When I said the AMD drivers were doing tons of things beyond simple firmware image loading, that was not to prepare for opengl. It is a sh*t ton of additional h

When I said the AMD drivers were doing tons of things beyond simple firmware image loading, that was not to prepare for opengl. It is a sh*t ton of additional hardware setup in order to get the basic hardware programing interfaces, those used by opengl _and_ vulkan. If you say that nvidia was successful at getting a near-0 driver once the firmware images were loaded, that would explained the rumors that AMD would like a near-0 driver too. If true for nvidia, it means their kernel driver is almost empty, some firmware loading, and only memory mappings around for the ring buffers (dunno if nvidia has virtual memory spaces). Without the compute/3D pipeline programing from userspace, the lapsus hackers will feel kind of even more ripped off, since the kernel modules are somewhat basic. Ofc, when I was talking about RISC-V ISAs, I was actually talking about user visible ISAs.