Thanks to Valve’s Linux graphics team, VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is now supported by the Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release.
Prominent RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset at Valve has landed support for VK_EXT_device_generated_commands, the multi-vendor device generated commands “DGC” implementation. Last month with Vulkan 1.3.296 the VK_EXT_device_generated_commands extension was introduced to succeed NVIDIA’s vendor-prefixed DGC extension. The device generated commands extension allows for the GPU device to generate a number of commands for command buffers. VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is a very big and important addition to the Vulkan API: Valve’s Mike Blumenkrantz has argued that DGC is the biggest addition to Vulkan since ray-tracing.
For AMD, it’s literally just make sure
mesais installed (it is by default on most distros), make sureamdvlkis installed, and then go.From there, if you are gaming, you handle whatever your games need like enabling 32-bit libraries for Steam if your distro doesn’t by default, or doing whatever WINE or Lutris wants you to do.
Done.