DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve
DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 29 July 2026 at 04:47 PM EDT. Add A Comment Sent out today was another week's worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver. We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material for next month's Linux 7.3 kernel but there is some nice feature work in store for this week.
- ▪DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 29 July 2026 at 04:47 PM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment Sent out today was another week's worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver.
- ▪We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material for next month's Linux 7.3 kernel but there is some nice feature work in store for this week.
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DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 29 July 2026 at 04:47 PM EDT. Add A Comment Sent out today was another week's worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver. We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material for next month's Linux 7.3 kernel but there is some nice feature work in store for this week. For those on an older AMD Radeon GPU with GFX6 through GFX8 era IP, which equates to the original Radeon HD 7000 series "GCN 1.0" graphics cards up through the Polaris and FIji based graphics cards, there is now DRM format modifier support for these old GPUs.
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