The AMD shader compiler 'ACO' alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end has seen another batch of changes merged in preparations for next-generation Radeon RDNA4 GPUs.
The open-source Mesa driver developers employed by Valve for working on the Linux graphics stack have begun preparing the RADV Vulkan driver and the ACO compiler back-end for the upcoming 'GFX12' graphics IP for next-generation RDNA4.
It's been a long journey but Valve's Samuel Pitoiset has now enabled VK EXT shader object support by default with Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' for the upcoming Mesa 24.1 release.
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has landed support in the RADV Vulkan driver for the Vulkan VK EXT device address binding report extension with Mesa 24.1.