[OpenIndiana-discuss] Graphics card support

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Russel

Most parts of Graphics drivers AMDGPU and Intel live inside the Mesa 
project where we are at a state of 2021. We have to disable some 
functionality on Intel like shader caching as we are missing the backing 
kernel functions. We would also need to check that we have the backing 
kernel driver for AMDGPU. On FOSDEM we estimated that it would be 
roughly a 150K - 200K Euro or a one man Year/Year and a half project to 
get this working and proper, hence the recent initiative with the 
Association. So that we have a legal vehicle to finance such efforts for 
OpenIndiana with Sponsors.

-Till


On 22.05.25 08:09, russell wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Given what is happening in the Graphics card market with Nvidia, AMD and 
> more recently Intel's new cards. Nvidia appears to be not interested in 
> producing affordable graphics cards.
> 
> In order to support AMD cards using the AMD supported Open Source Driver 
> for Vulkan, does Vulkan support need to be included or is there a better 
> solution to support AMD cards?
> 
> While Intel cards are improving in performance what is the level of 
> support?
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Russell
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