fedora-amdgpu-pro

A repository that provides the proprietary driver for fedora without having to deal with hassle of getting RHEL repo to work , and it has 32 bit libraries.

The end goal of this repository is to hand it over to glourious eggroll , so he can use it to supply AMD proprietary to nobara/fedora users

Q&A

• Who's responsiable for this?

Some dumb 14 year old on the internet.

• Proprietary drivers on AMD? thought those guys were open source ??

While yes AMD driver stack is mostly open-source , some corporate greed still runs in the blood as some parts remains proprietary like :

• The legacy/pal/orca OpenCL drivers. (required for darktable , resolve & blender (< 3.0) .)
• The industrial OpenGL drivers (required for resolve.)
• The Advanced Media Framework System Runtime
• A Vulkan driver with ray tracing capabilities

How to use

• install the binaries from the releases section or maybe a repo one day or learn to generate them on your own system

"WARNING" : It seems like AMD maintainers forgot enable rdna2 in amdvlk-pro starting from amdgpu-pro 21.50 and onwards , so please use amdvlk-pro-rdna2 if you have a rdna2 GPU.

For Vulkan

• install amdgpu-vulkan-switcher from https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/gloriouseggroll/amdgpu-vulkan-switcher/

AMDVLK_PRO

• Run the program with

vk_pro {THE_PROGRAM}

AMDVLK

"WARNING" : Since you get the 64 bit amdvlk binary directly from AMD's github you need to symlink their icd so that the amdgpu-vulkan-switcher can read it.

• To do that , run

sudo ln -s /etc/vulkan/icd.d/amd_icd64.json /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/amd_icd64.json

• Run the program with

vk_amdvlk {THE_PROGRAM}

For AMF

• Just run the program the needs AMF with vk_pro and it will work.

For OpenCL

• The system will do what it needs to do automatically .

For OpenGL

• install amdgpu-opengl-switcher from https://github.com/CosmicFusion/amdgpu-opengl-switcher

• And run your program with

gl_pro {THE_PROGRAM}

• You can also use zink

gl_zink {THE_PROGRAM}

.

How to manually compile

There are a bunch of .spec files in this repository , choose what you want to build and build it the spec using the proper architecture (x86_64 or i686) , and enjoy! eg :

you want "$source"/x86_64/amdvlk-pro , a.k.a 64-bit vulkan amdgpu pro

rpmbuild -bb --target=x86_64 "$source"/x86_64/amdvlk-pro/amdvlk-pro.spec

you want "$source"/i686/amdvlk-pro , a.k.a 32-bit vulkan amdgpu pro

rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 "$source"/i686/amdvlk-pro/amdvlk-pro.i686.spec

"WARNING" : This script depends on rpmbuild cleaning to clean the build directory , so if building was for any reason cancelled or failed , do not attempt to build again , until you erase the builddir manually , or else it "WILL" fail . .