AMDVLK open-source project is discontinued

[jinjianrong]

In a move to streamline development and strengthen our commitment to the open-source community, AMD is unifying its Linux Vulkan driver strategy and has decided to discontinue the AMDVLK open-source project, throwing our full support behind the RADV driver as the officially supported open-source Vulkan driver for Radeon™ graphics adapters.

This consolidation allows us to focus our resources on a single, high-performance codebase that benefits from the incredible work of the entire open-source community. We invite developers and users alike to utilize the RADV driver and contribute to its future.

• Learn more about RADV: Mesa RADV Documentation
• Contribute to the code: Mesa GitLab Repository

We are excited about this focused path forward and are committed to the continued success of open-source Vulkan on Radeon.

[Snektron]

What does this mean for AMDPAL and in particular ROCm on Windows?

[Flakebi]

The code base is still used for Windows, so I’d expect PAL and HIP on Windows to continue working as it is today.

[Snektron]

But will those repositories remain open source & under development?

[R1chterScale]

To clarify, does this mean that AMD will be allocating more engineering resources towards RADV?

[Preisschild]

I think thats what "throwing our full support behind the RADV driver" means

[R1chterScale]

I took it to likely mean that, but I wanted concrete clarification

[Croydon]

I would also like to see this point clarified. Otherwise, this could be corporate speech for: "We are investing less in Linux support".

[Leopard1907]

Why pal also got archieved?

[Gen5551]

Hi all. that is, AMDVLK is no more? and then which Vulkan driver should I use?

[R1chterScale]

It explicitly says which one to use in the announcement. Read it

[Gen5551]

Okay..

[dotjson01]

I a using Nvidia 🐥 on ubuntu
Is it okay?

[Laguna720]

Is this a sign that RADV might come to Windows in the future? The Vulkan driver for Windows is based on AMDVLK...

[GreyXor]

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Windows-XDC-2024
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/29945
• https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/contributions/296/attachments/227/307/2024-10-10%20XDC%202024%20-%20A%20Little%20Windows%20with%20your%20Mesa.pdf

[Hammerklavier-cn]

How about the pro vulkan driver?

[ragatol]

Any info on how/when will the Dev tools like the Radeon GPU Profiler work with the RADV driver?

[Flakebi]

RADV can capture RGP traces, look for MESA_VK_TRACE here: https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html#envvar-MESA_VK_TRACE