Yeah, this was a nice surprise for the old thin client I use as an GUI access terminal for some servers. Not exactly a gaming machine, but some desktop tasks also benefit.

GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards and APUs for transitioning them from the legacy Radeon driver over to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver

Far as I can figure out GCN 1.0 is southern islands and 1.1 is sea islands which are from 2012-2014, and HD7xxx and R[5-9] 2xx are the actual models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon#Feature_overview seems to have a green block for amdgpu for those in "kernel 6.19+".

I wish they'd put the real stuff in the article. I hate hunting these things down.

Nice to hear there's new development. I wonder if there's a lot of igpus still in use from this era. Feels like they're probably over the line already.

Lmao, the thumbnail: "why would anyone use a 10-year old GPU?"

gestures around everywhere

For anyone with an HD 7000 / R9 200-era card or an old GCN APU sitting in a drawer: the move to amdgpu as the default for GCN 1.0/1.1 means you get RADV Vulkan, so DXVK/Proton games that simply wouldn't start on the old radeon driver now have a chance. If you're on an older kernel or a distro that still binds radeon, lspci -k shows which kernel driver the card is actually using.

Nice to see the talk also cover how he moved from Mesa into kernel work, that part is useful for anyone thinking about contributing.

This is really some amazing work! It helped me switch my Sons system from an old 1060 6G to an RX 580 (which I had laying around).

Performance is about the same (sometimes slightly better). But now I do not need to fiddle with this old nvidia GPU driver anymore!