With the new patches, the GCN 1.1 GPUs will transition from Radeon to the AMDGPU open-source kernel graphics driver module. Timur Kristóf Proposes New Kernel Patches to Bring GCN 1.1 aka Sea Islands GPUs (Radeon R9 290/390, HD 7790, etc.) Under AMDGPU by Default; GCN 1.0 May Follow Soon Unlike Windows, thankfully, Linux operating systems won’t lag in supporting older AMD GPUs, as the recent proposed Linux patches bring a bigger change. As spotted by Phoronix, Timur Kristóf, who is a part of Valve’s Linux graphics driver team, has proposed new patches to the kernel driver, which will transition the […]
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