Twelve thousand lines of code to pave the way! AMD RDNA 5 driver patch rolled out

Alex Deucher, maintainer of the AMD GPU open source kernel driver, recently submitted a batch of new patches to enable basic support for AMD's next-generation graphics IPGFX13 (GC 13.x).

Since GFX13 is generally considered to correspond to the RDNA 5 architecture, this means that Linux driver support for AMD's next-generation graphics cards has officially started.

In fact, since the beginning of this year, patches related to GFX13 have appeared in the backend of the LLVM compiler, which was regarded as a prelude to RDNA 5.

Now this support has finally advanced to the AMDGPU kernel driver level, which coincides with the development progress of a new generation of graphics cards.

It is understood that this patch has a total of 8, with more than 12,600 lines of code, which does not include the usual bulky header files, including support for the two specific goals of GFX 13.0.1 and GFX 13.0.4.

However, from the existing content, no substantive information on RDNA 5's ability or new characteristics has been disclosed for the time being.

It is worth noting that this patch is an initial activation, and there will be a series of follow-up patches to connect the new features. Interested players can go to the kernel mailing list to view the full content.

According to the current time node, GFX13 support is expected to be officially integrated with the Linux 7.5 kernel. In the existing core, the Display Core Next 6 (DCN6) display module and other related IPs are already in place, and they are expected to form a complete support puzzle for RDNA 5 graphics cards together with GFX13.

Source: MyDrivers (Fast Technology). Content is presented with source attribution. Read the original report.