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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A different driver set for each chip architecture maybe?

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 4 points 1 month ago

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