AMD’s Next-Gen RDNA 4 GPUs Recieve New Patchs & Support In ACO Compiler & MESA

AMD's shader compiler "ACO" has seen the influx of multiple patches, supporting the next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs.

Linux has seen massive developments in enablement for AMD's upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs, and it looks like Team Red won't stop just yet, as they add in another set of updates targeted at bringing optimal support for AMD users. This time, Valve's open-source developers have brought in additional patches for the ACO compiler, a standard LLVM compiler dedicated to resources such as MESA's RADV Vulkan driver and the RadeonSI OpenGL driver.

Now, with this, Valve engineers have pushed out support for AMD RDNA 4 GPUs, and the merge request has already debuted at MESA 24.4, explicitly targeted towards the GFX12 architecture.

Moreover, apart from support in the ACO compiler, Valve engineers previously merged 24 patches into the RadeonSI OpenGL driver, which includes the platform's fundamentals, such as AMD AC code, ADDRLIB library code, and several changes associated with the RDNA 4 GPU architecture. The RDNA 4 GPUs also saw several merge requests within the MESA drivers. The AMD RDNA  4 lineup is so far reported to feature the GFX1200 "Navi 44" and GFX 1201 "Navi 48" chips & these two should go on to power the Radeon RX 8000 lineup when they launch which is expected sometime this year.

So, it's safe to say that one should expect decent enablement with the debut of RDNA 4 GPUs on Linux. The development team at AMD has done a great job of actually succeeding in this matter, covering up their past mistakes. With such initiatives, AMD is ready to take Linux support to an all-time high, giving competition to alternatives like MESA's RADV Vulkan driver, which is seen as the far better choice & has witnessed tremendous interest over the past few years due to its more open-source nature.

News Source: Phoronix