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0 pointsdogma11385y ago0 comments

AMD already does and that creates a lot of friction both due to the bloat of the kernel the majority of which is now the AMD driver and the issue with code conventions and quality.

Unless hardware vendors agree to support a generic driver for each device type which can be maintained by the Linux kernel team it’s going to be a total nightmare and even then you need an easy model to extend the generic driver with a device specific one through an easy interface.

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marcan_425y ago

The AMD driver bloat is the register definitions. They have like 100+ MB of autogenerated register defines, some duplicated 8 times for each unit instance, for every chip generation and variant.

It's not real code, though it is ugly as heck and I have no idea why AMD can't do it a saber way.

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