Talk:Vulkan
Latest comment: 17 September by Hanabishi in topic AMDVLK has discontinued as of today, should we edit this page and others to convey this information?
AMDVLK has discontinued as of today, should we edit this page and others to convey this information?
"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."
https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/discussions/416 Ioletsgo. (talk) 18:04, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
- While amdvlk package is still available in official repos, I think placing a simple warning should be enough. E.g.
- Warning AMDVLK driver has been discontinued and not recommended to install.
- Hanabishi (talk) 19:58, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
- It seems an editor by the name of Velocifyer removed all mentions of AMDVLK from this page, but retaining similar information in AMDGPU will only lead to confusion and misunderstanding. I don't think outright removing all information on AMDVLK is smart, there are (for one reason or another) people who might still be using those drivers. Should there maybe be information on how to install different drivers? (I know it might be superfluous for someone who daily drives Arch, but for someone who might be running EndeavourOS, Manjaro, or another Arch Linux derivative, it could be helpful.) Ioletsgo. (talk) 14:45, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- I imagine we treat AMDVLK in a similar way we treat broken packages, due to a lack of procedures when it comes to official packages becoming discontinued (it might be beneficial to see this as a package waiting to be broken), from Help:Procedures#Fix broken package links
- "To fix a broken package link, do
- not
- simply remove the reference to the packages from the wiki,"
- Ioletsgo. (talk) 14:52, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- Already reverted.
- Hanabishi (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- It seems an editor by the name of Velocifyer removed all mentions of AMDVLK from this page, but retaining similar information in AMDGPU will only lead to confusion and misunderstanding. I don't think outright removing all information on AMDVLK is smart, there are (for one reason or another) people who might still be using those drivers. Should there maybe be information on how to install different drivers? (I know it might be superfluous for someone who daily drives Arch, but for someone who might be running EndeavourOS, Manjaro, or another Arch Linux derivative, it could be helpful.) Ioletsgo. (talk) 14:45, 17 September 2025 (UTC)