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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.dev · 1 year ago

AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines

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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines

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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.dev · 1 year ago
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Graphical boot menus are timing out before AMDGPU can load.
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    The AMD graphics driver is reputedly the biggest that mainstream Linux users will encounter, approaching six million lines of code.

    That does seem a bit … excessive.

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      A decent chunk of that is autogenerated code

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