Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0

Posted by bob on Feb 23, 2026 5:00 PM EDT
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It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel's entire codebase as the single largest driver...

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