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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A decent chunk of that is autogenerated code

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do they know what it does?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Register bit twiddling." Setting all the modes that all their various cards can operate in, with the associated code for sending the bit updates over the connection bus. Tedious stuff that's very prone to copy-paste errors if written by hand.

At some point you have to take AMDs word for it that these codes = this functionality, but if the right graphics come out then it can't be so wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks