AMD Boosts Linux Gaming with Mesa and Driver Updates for Steam Deck.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phoronix
Mesa 23.1 has enabled Rusticl Rust-written OpenCL driver support for RadeonSI, thanks to a merge request by Red Hat's Karol Herbst. This modern OpenCL support for RadeonSI is an alternative to using the ROCm OpenCL stack or the aging "Clover" Gallium3D OpenCL driver. Rusticl has previously outperformed ROCm OpenCL in benchmarks, and going the Rusticl route should be easier for running open-source Radeon OpenCL on non-enterprise Linux distributions where ROCm isn't officially certified/tested.