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
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