AMD's Radeon RX 8000 may be getting closer. The company's driver team recently rolled out a series of new patches for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver that enable some of the IP blocks that presumably belong to graphics processors based on the company's next-generation RDNA 4 architecture. For now, these are basic building blocks of a driver, but such step-by-step rollout corresponds to the company's enablement strategy, as observed by Phoronix.
The latest patches enable operation of several critical components: ATHUB has been upgraded to version 4.1, LSDMA to version 7.0, IH to version 7.0, and HDP also to version 7.0. Each of these IP blocks is crucial for operation of a graphics processor (in this case, presumably an RDNA 4-based family).
