The last driver supporting this generation of chip is WDDM 2 compliant - so it's OK as long as Windows supports WDDM 2.
Well yes, M$ cutting out chips at arbitary points in time and evidently at least sometimes at the behest of the manufacturers, is another issue I'd like the regulators to put meaningful pressure on.
AMD's GPU specification are open, and can be implemented by whomever wants to do it. As a matter of fact, the biggest limitation is Microsoft forcing signed drivers on Windows, as such open sourcing them isn't the solution.
And a crypto-monopoly in the hands of Microsoft is yet another no-go. I'm holding back on Ryzen 4, because of the lack of transparency on Pluton TPMs.
The real culprit is obviously the spoiled fruity cult which was built on a DRM audio player instead of personal computers, but Microsoft's ongoing slow takeover of sovereignty over PCs must be stopped: I hired Microsoft as a concierge, but she believes she now owns my house and may control my life.
Regulators can't do anything about it - especially since AMD does provide working drivers for these parts, even if they're not the latest and shiniest.
I don't care about the lateset and shiniest in iGPU drivers, stability and security are really the most important features there. As long as they do maintain them for outright bugs and vulnerabilities, I'd be quite happy enough.
Same as above - AMD is providing drivers, even if not the very latest, so there's nothing you can do. And where were you when Intel decided to end support for Haswell's iGPU, eventhough some parts using it could still be found as new?
I believe Intel has made a split between feature evolution and maintenance for iGPUs. As long as that works, that's fine with me. I've rarely used Haswell iGPUs, so I never noticed, actually all of my Haswell CPUs are Xeons and mostly E5 big dies.
There lack of Windows 11 support is a bit more of a bother, but I fix that by running that on Proxmox with dGPU pass-through, where Windows 11 will just happly run on anything Nehalem or newer, disproving all hardware based vendor tales.
Then you can contribute to whatever project is out there supports compiling and installing Mesa drivers on Windows. There you have it! Note : interest is extremely low, and it is currently easier to run Linux with open source Mesa drivers and any Windows software you can't do without in a wrapper on top of it than it is to compile and run Windows open source drivers.
I put that demand there, not because I thought the idea would be immediately catch on or work pragmatically today.
Mostly I hate regulators only running after vendors after they have done their dirty deeds to a few too many, and instead put regulation proactively in place, where IT that is no longer maintained, needs to be open-sourced, so owners and 3rd parties can take over.
It's basically a regulator imposed escrow service to ensure against vendor malfaesance and failures including bankrupcy.
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