I knew it! Could you tell engineers at AMD that we need GDS both on Windows and Linux?
This is such a waste of time and energy...
Not at all...your implementation will work just fine under linux, and im pretty sure the majority of miners (at least people with more than 1 or 2 cards) are on linux anyways.
I think the people mining with < 10 rigs are mostly on windows.
I have an ugly suspicion that most folks mining are on Windoze this past year, but I'm in the process of moving all of my rigs BACK to LINUX (most of them are still there) and NONE of them have more than 4 GPUs in teh rig (counting the AMD APU most of my rigs have).
LINUX drivers for AMD have veried, just like the Windows ones - some have been trash, some have been good reliable stuff.
It would be more accurate to say that most of the 2016 driver releases IN GENERAL from AMD have been trash to at least some degree.