Probably the most interesting feature of the GNU Linux-libre 4.2 kernel is the addition of support for AMDGPU, the AMD GPU LLVM (formerly Low Level Virtual Machine) backend. However, it would appear that AMDGPU doesn’t work at all without blobs, similarly to the Radeon driver. GNU Linux-libre kernel 4.2 also adds a freedom-friendly Intel i915 driver.
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