"In a move to streamline development and strengthen our commitment to the open-source community, AMD is unifying its Linux Vulkan driver strategy and has decided to discontinue the AMDVLK open-source project, throwing our full support behind the RADV driver as the officially supported open-source Vulkan driver for Radeon™ graphics adapters."

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/discussions/416 Ioletsgo. (talk) 18:04, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

While amdvlk package is still available in official repos, I think placing a simple warning should be enough. E.g.

Warning AMDVLK driver has been discontinued and not recommended to install.

Hanabishi (talk) 19:58, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

It seems an editor by the name of Velocifyer removed all mentions of AMDVLK from this page, but retaining similar information in AMDGPU will only lead to confusion and misunderstanding. I don't think outright removing all information on AMDVLK is smart, there are (for one reason or another) people who might still be using those drivers. Should there maybe be information on how to install different drivers? (I know it might be superfluous for someone who daily drives Arch, but for someone who might be running EndeavourOS, Manjaro, or another Arch Linux derivative, it could be helpful.) Ioletsgo. (talk) 14:45, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I imagine we treat AMDVLK in a similar way we treat broken packages, due to a lack of procedures when it comes to official packages becoming discontinued (it might be beneficial to see this as a package waiting to be broken), from Help:Procedures#Fix broken package links

"To fix a broken package link, do

not

simply remove the reference to the packages from the wiki,"

Ioletsgo. (talk) 14:52, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Already reverted.

Hanabishi (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I have to add that amdvlk causes issues by even being installed sometimes, see example Proton compatibility report. It should be very useful information to have on the wiki. Keep Yourself Safe (talk) 10:13, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

All mentions of AMDVLK already have been removed from the wiki, so there is nothing to discuss anymore.

Hanabishi (talk) 10:16, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

There is. Adding the warning, that is. Lots of people may be lead here from external sources and adding a warning would mitigate the confusion.Keep Yourself Safe (talk) 10:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Warning for what? The amdvlk package does not exist anymore in repos. So it can not be installed by normal means.

If users find ways to install it by any other means, that's their own fault and totally not our area of responsibility.

Hanabishi (talk) 10:41, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

It's still installed on many systems (not much conflicts with it) and is still on the AUR. Keep Yourself Safe (talk) 12:39, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

That's a valid point, but more of a packaging problem. I created a request for that.

Hanabishi (talk) 13:20, 27 October 2025 (UTC)