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Valve is contributing quite a bit, with their ACO compiler for instance, but the RADV driver did not in fact originate with them. We owe a great deal to David Airlie for that. He wrote a complete vulkan driver years before AMD released the source code for AMDVLK. Valve started contributing a few years in, IIRC.

To AMD's credit, they did help with documentation, questions, and much of the work was built on top of what was there for RadeonSI (OpenGL): shader compiler back-end, etc.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-Rad... -> https://airlied.livejournal.com/81460.html




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