Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
- Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows.
- Experimental work is underway for porting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver to Windows as this open-source driver implementation used by Linux gamers and a large part to the success of the AMD-powered Steam Deck and now Steam Machine.
- Valve funds multiple developers working on the open-source RADV Vulkan driver and other portions of the Linux graphics stack.
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- Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows.
- Experimental work is underway for porting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver to Windows as this open-source driver implementation used by Linux gamers and a large part to the success of the AMD-powered Steam Deck and now Steam Machine.
- Valve funds multiple developers working on the open-source RADV Vulkan driver and other portions of the Linux graphics stack.
Sources: Phoronix