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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines
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They should split it in two drivers, one legacy and one all other.
At least two. Or make it with modules and only load the necessary one.
Right; any solution they come up with presumably needs to be more scalable than "new drivers" and "old drivers". Eventually there will be too large a set of "old drivers" and we'll end up in the same situation with a small "new drivers" driver and a large "old drivers" blob.
A different driver set for each chip architecture maybe?
Maybe; it does sound like reducing the size of the driver is potentially possible as well https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Headers-Repo-Idea