Reports that AMD are planning to open source their GPU code soonhttps://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/amd_mes_open_source/
Doesn’t appear to be an April Fool spoof to me, but I’m not deep into that area.
As far as I’m aware, the GPU driver has been open source for a while now:
Perhaps there’s some nuance that I’m missing? I’m not familiar with what MES is or what it’s responsibilities are compared to the driver I linked.
I believe this is the upstream source.
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Might really be https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-Hardware-Docs
They’re open sourcing additional software and hardware docs. Speculation is more of the firmware blob will be open sourced, but we’ll see.
For MES, this has a bit of information and links as to what it is https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Docs-And-Source-Code
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I took it that they are open sourcing the code that is loaded into the GPU, so I believe that would be whatever blob they load at boot.
I was hoping that’s what it’d be. This is a HUGE deal, even if they’re only able to open a chunk of it.