AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Millionwww.phoronix.comexternal-linkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.party petsoi ( @petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de ) Linux@discuss.tchncs.de • 10 months ago message-square3fedilinkarrow-up120
arrow-up120external-linkAMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Millionwww.phoronix.com petsoi ( @petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de ) Linux@discuss.tchncs.de • 10 months ago message-square3fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.party
minus-square tormeh ( @tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de ) linkfedilink1•10 months agoHoly mackerel. This seems excessive, and there’s gotta be so much nasty stuff hidden and/or forgotten in there. Is the Intel driver as large?
minus-square jcarax ( @jcarax@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink2•10 months ago Meanwhile the open-source NVIDIA “Nouveau” driver is around 201k (21.7k blank lines, 24.3k lines of comments, and 155k lines of code). Or the Intel i915 DRM kernel graphics driver is around 381k lines via the same cloc judgment.
Holy mackerel. This seems excessive, and there’s gotta be so much nasty stuff hidden and/or forgotten in there. Is the Intel driver as large?