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AMD’s Kernel Compute Driver “AMDKFD” Can Now Be Enabled On RISC-V

By June 6, 2025June 18th, 2025No Comments

Following all of the Linux kernel graphics driver features merged last week for the Linux 6.16 kernel, sent out this morning were the initial batch of fixes to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code. Besides fixes to these graphics / display / accelerator drivers, there is one new feature: the AMDKFD kernel compute driver can now be enabled on RISC-V systems.

Coming in via this “fixes” pull request is enabling support for AMDKFD on RISC-V. It’s fine as we are still within the Linux 6.16 merge window that is then closing this Sunday with the release of Linux 6.16-rc1. At this stage the AMDKFD on RISC-V support just comes down to a small Kconfig patch for allowing this kernel driver to be built on that CPU architecture.

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