@[email protected] to [email protected] • 10 months agoAMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Millionwww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•10 months agoHoly mackerel. This seems excessive, and there’s gotta be so much nasty stuff hidden and/or forgotten in there. Is the Intel driver as large?
minus-squarePietrasaghlinkfedilinkPolski2•10 months agoAcc to article Intel driver is 381k kines. Two orders of magnitude less. There might some minor inefficiencies in AMD code, but nobody will read 34 mln of lines of code so we will never know ;-)
Holy mackerel. This seems excessive, and there’s gotta be so much nasty stuff hidden and/or forgotten in there. Is the Intel driver as large?
Acc to article Intel driver is 381k kines. Two orders of magnitude less. There might some minor inefficiencies in AMD code, but nobody will read 34 mln of lines of code so we will never know ;-)