Very few, entreprise users (aka volume) will pay the license, hobbyists will pirate it if need be.
AMD doesn't want to do support for the hobbyists for free, that's all.
replyNo, AMD wants to collect some rent from people running Vivado in CI/CD environments.
replyUnderstandable. But would it be much easier to release it without promise to support. That everyone would just accept.
reply> I wonder how many Linux GPU sales their decision to penalize Linux on their FPGA line will cost them
replyHonestly? I bet the number is in the hundreds of units total.
Most people do not care that a software package they don’t use and possibly never heard of before today no longer has a free tier on Linux.
I mean, over the years, I have purchased (or advised other people to purchase) multiple Nvidia GPUs for compute workloads.
replyAnd the reason pretty much always came down to good integration between various open source software and proprietary CUDA drivers. And the assumption is that this support will continue for many years.
So, yeah, burning their existing FPGA users is a strong signal never to invest real money in their GPUs for compute workloads.
>I wonder how many Linux GPU sales their decision to penalize Linux on their FPGA line will cost them.
replyNot many I would guess.
considering nvidia has garbage gpu drivers in linux land and amd has pretty good ones i suspect you’re correct.
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