Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielma...@web.de> writes:
> There is a bunch of entirely FOSS drivers for AMD Radeon cards: > > Kernel drivers: > radeon: for older cards before GCN1.2 (kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon) > amdgpu: for the new cards since GCN1.2 (kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu) > > Userspace drivers: > radeonsi: for almost all cards in the last decade > (mesa/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi) > r600: for the ones before (mesa/src/gallium/drivers/r600) > > Vulkan drivers: > RADV: written by the community (RedHat etc.), because AMD initially didn't > make their Vulkan > userspace FOSS (mesa/src/amd/vulkan) > AMDVLK: AMDs Vulkan driver released as FOSS > (https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK) > > So your FOSS driver would consist of amdgpu + radeonsi + radv and is in > almost all cases the > best choice (performance, stability etc). What about firmware? Do we know which AMD Radeon cards, if any, can be used without including nonfree software in the OS? A quick web search would seem to suggest that on Debian, it is very commonly required to install the 'firmware-linux-nonfree' and/or 'firmware-amd-graphics' packages from non-free. Thanks, Mark
