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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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From my understanding, a lot of code in the graphics drivers is special-case handling for specific games to optimize for the way that the game uses the APIs. Is this correct?
In which case it would make sense to have the game-specific code loaded dynamically when that game is launched, since 99.99% of the game specific code will be for games that the user never runs.
From my understanding 99.999% of those “Game ready drivers” are patches for machines that you do not use but have to download anyway to keep everything on the same version.
My understanding is that most of that all lives in mesa, and the kernel driver basically just abstracts the hardware.