fidzu : kernel

We're happy to announce that registration for LPC 2025 is now open. To register please go to our attend page.

To try to prevent the instant sellout, we are keeping our cancellation policy of no refunds, only transfers of registrations. You will find more details during the registration process. LPC 2025 follows the Linux Foundation's health & safety policy.

As usual we expect to sell our rather quickly so don't delay your registration for too long!

15 Sep 2025 8:16pm GMT

AMD have announced the end of the AMDVLK open driver in favour of focusing on radv for Linux use cases.

When Bas and I started radv in 2016, AMD were promising their own Linux vulkan driver, which arrived in Dec 2017. At this point radv was already shipping in most Linux distros. AMD strategy of having AMDVLK was developed via over the wall open source releases from internal closed development was always going to be a second place option at that point.

When Valve came on board and brought dedicated developer power to radv, and the aco compiler matured, there really was no point putting effort into using AMDVLK which was hard to package and impossible to contribute to meaningfully for external developers.

radv is probably my proudest contribution to the Linux ecosystem, finally disproving years of idiots saying an open source driver could never compete with a vendor provided driver, now it is the vendor provided driver.

I think we will miss the open source PAL repo as a reference source and I hope AMD engineers can bridge that gap, but it's often hard to find workarounds you don't know exist to ask about them. I'm also hoping AMD will add more staffing beyond the current levels especially around hardware enablement and workarounds.

Now onwards to NVK victory :-)

[1] https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/discussions/416

15 Sep 2025 7:08pm GMT

The CfPs for the Linux Plumbers events are coming to an end. If you still want to submit, please get your submission in by the deadline. The deadlines are:

• Refereed track: September 10th (that's this Wednesday)
• Kernel Summit track: September 10th (See Ted Tso's email about how to submit).
• eBPF track: September 29th
• Networking track: October 17th

Each of the Microconferences has their own last day to submit. Those are listed in the Accepted Microconferences tab on the website.

All submissions may be added in the Call for Proposals tab. Click the Submit new abstract button at the bottom of that page, and make sure you select the proper Track.

08 Sep 2025 4:14pm GMT