Dave Airlie Linux Graphics blog

F38 just released and seeing a bunch of people complain that TF2 dies on AMD or other platforms when lavapipe is installed. Who's at fault? I've no real idea. How to fix it? I've no real idea. What's happening? AMD OpenGL drivers use LLVM as the backend compiler. Fedora 38 updated to LLVM 16. LLVM 16 is built with c++17 by default. C++17 introduces new "operator new/delete" interfaces[1]. TF2 ships with it's own libtcmalloc_minimal.so implementation, tcmalloc expects to replace all the new/delete interfaces, but the version in TF2 must not support or had incorrect support for the new align interfaces. What happens is when TF2 probes OpenGL and LLVM is loaded, when DenseMap initializes, one "new" path fails to go into tcmalloc, but the "delete" path does, and this causes tcmalloc to explode with "src/tcmalloc.cc:278] Attempt to free invalid pointer" Fixing it? I'll talk to Valve and see if we can work out something, LLVM 16...

There are plans for nouveau to support using the NVIDIA supplied GSP firmware in order to support new hardware going forward The nouveau project doesn't have any input or control over the firmware. NVIDIA have made no promises around stable ABI or firmware versioning. The current status quo is that NVIDIA will release versioned signed gsp firmwares as part of their driver distribution packages that are version locked to their proprietary drivers (open source and binary). They are working towards allowing these firmwares to be redistributed in linux-firmware. The NVIDIA firmwares are quite large. The nouveau project will control the selection of what versions of the released firmwares are to be supported by the driver, it's likely a newer firmware will only be pulled into linux-firmware for: New hardware support (new GPU family or GPU support) Security fix in the firmware New features that is required to be supported This should at least limit the number of firmwares in the linu...