Yep another LTS kernel with new supports for Amd and Arm's processors etc...
And AMDGPU is now enabled by default an includes most recent amd gpus.
The fury is really the only gpu that I know of that will not get support until kernel 4.5
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Wow... You would think a flagship card would be supported by now. Also, why AMD doesn't bring Crimson to Linux is beyond me.
Crimson is on linux. They just don't use the utility that is in windows.
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No, you are slightly mistaken.
The main proprietary drivers for AMD is in fact the crimson drivers. AND this is the very first time that we are seeing REAL AMDGPU drivers.
In kernel 4.3 we had very little support, and now we have full support. And it is not like the drivers for the fury do not exist. They simply missed the deadline for the 4.4 kernel by like a week or two.
We should start to see fury drivers as early as kernel 4.5 rc1
Its on 3.19... aka the by now ancient Linux kernel. AMDGPU is supposed to fix that locked to a linux kernel problem but the propitiatory drivers dont support it yet.
Maybe well see a release for the 4.4 amdgpu drivers
Heres a good list of the features
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.4
Couple of interesting additions
virtio-gpu is a driver for virtualization guests that allows to use the host graphics card efficiently. In this release, it allows the virtualization guest to use the capabilities of the host GPU to accelerate 3D rendering. In practice, this means that a virtualized linux guest can run a opengl game while using the GPU acceleration capabilities of the host, as show in this or this video. This also requires running QEMU 2.5.
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.4-DriversArch
More wireless support as well
If the AMD GPU driver is now in the kernel doesn't that kill support for a card like my 250X?
I thought it only supported as low as a 260?
Introduction of xf86-video-amdgpu does not mean xf86-video-ati goes away.
True, though the radeon crashes need to be mended :|