This is a huge win for the open source community!!
The headline alone? No, I don’t think so, because AMD’s driver had a reputation for working in some situations (mostly non-gaming IIRC) where Mesa didn’t.
However, this bit quoted from the release notes might make up for it:
“The Mesa Vulkan driver will be officially supported, along with Mesa OpenGL and Multimedia support.”
Assuming they mean that AMD will work with Mesa to get the remaining edge cases fixed, so that the proprietary driver is no longer needed at all, this does seem like good news.
The headline alone? No, I don’t think so, because AMD’s driver had a reputation for working in some situations (mostly non-gaming IIRC) where Mesa didn’t.
However, this bit quoted from the release notes might make up for it:
Assuming they mean that AMD will work with Mesa to get the remaining edge cases fixed, so that the proprietary driver is no longer needed at all, this does seem like good news.