Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows (www.phoronix.com)

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Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows.

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2000s: people are porting/virtualizing #Windows drivers to make them work on #Linux, because Linux has a shortage of good native drivers.

2020s: people are porting Linux drivers to make them work on Windows, because Windows has a shortage of good native drivers.

this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026

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