Thanks to Valve’s Linux graphics team, VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is now supported by the Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release.
Prominent RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset at Valve has landed support for VK_EXT_device_generated_commands, the multi-vendor device generated commands “DGC” implementation. Last month with Vulkan 1.3.296 the VK_EXT_device_generated_commands extension was introduced to succeed NVIDIA’s vendor-prefixed DGC extension. The device generated commands extension allows for the GPU device to generate a number of commands for command buffers. VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is a very big and important addition to the Vulkan API: Valve’s Mike Blumenkrantz has argued that DGC is the biggest addition to Vulkan since ray-tracing.
that dated comment was right and i hit that easy button five years ago. also i’m realizing now that doing so has completely removed me from the discourse that happens nowadays when it comes to gpu’s and linux.
amd had already bought ati by the time i hit that easy button and that distinction that i used wasn’t out of place at the last time i was paying attention and participating; or atleast wasn’t so in my experience.
there used to be lists of rankings for compatibility for nvidia drivers and open source drivers as well. i wonder how i would go about finding the same for amd.
For AMD, it’s literally just make sure mesa is installed (it is by default on most distros), make sure radv is installed (it is by default on most distros), and then go.
From there, if you are gaming, you handle whatever your games need like enabling 32-bit libraries for Steam if your distro doesn’t by default, or doing whatever WINE or Lutris wants you to do.
Done.
