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Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New "MFT" Gallium3D Frontend

Sat, 05/24/2025 - 01:41
Microsoft's open-source code contributions to the Mesa 3D graphics stack continues... Hitting Mesa 25.2-devel today was a patch adding 61,925 lines of code patch as they introduce a new Gallium3D front-end...

Linux 6.15 Brings Many Features For Intel & AMD Hardware

Sat, 05/24/2025 - 01:10
With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here's a look back at some of the most interesting Linux 6.15 changes...

GNOME Help & Documentation Are In Need Of Help

Sat, 05/24/2025 - 00:31
The GNOME Release Team is issuing a call for help as GNOME Help and the associated GNOME documentation are much in need of some assistance...

Benchmarks: OpenCL Kernel Latency ~76x Lower For Intel Lunar Lake With Updated Compute Runtime

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 21:47
This week Intel released the Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 release for Windows and Linux. This updated open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero brings the latest work on Ultra Low Latency Scheduling (ULLS) for Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics and other ongoing Xe2 improvements along with further preparations for next-gen Xe3 hardware. This new Intel Compute Runtime release is clocking in around 76x lower OpenCL kernel latency and other nice wins for those with current-generation Intel Lunar Lake hardware.

GCC 14.3 Compiler Released With 200+ Bug Fixes

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 20:21
For those not yet on the newest GCC 15 compiler that debuted as stable one month ago, GCC 14.3 is out today in delivering the latest fixes for the GCC 14 stable series...

Linux 6.15 Sees Last Minute Power Savings Fix For Intel Arrow Lake U/H

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 19:58
Sent out today as part of last minute x86 platform driver fixes for Linux 6.15 is a rather important power-savings fix for Intel Arrow Lake U and Arrow Lake H laptops...

Mesa Will Stop Building Gallium-XA By Default

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 18:24
Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration. Gallium-XA was developed by VMware for use with their DDX driver for accelerating X11 within their virtualized environments. XA isn't really used these days and the generic GLAMOR code is in much better shape. Thus Mesa is now no longer building the XA code as the next step toward its removal...

AMD Previews Mysterious Linux Runtime Stack For Ryzen AI NPUs

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 17:54
While there is the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was upstreamed to the mainline kernel earlier this year with Linux 6.14 for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs and also their AIE Plugin for IREE user-space components, it seems something more is on the way...

Wayland 1.24 Release Candidate Brings Few Changes

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 17:38
Following the recent decision to no longer issue alpha or beta releases of Wayland, the Wayland 1.24 release candidate was issued on Thursday in working toward that next release...

FUTEX2 NUMA, MPOL & Task-Local Hash Maps Appear Ready For Linux 6.16

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 17:33
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will feature several additions to the FUTEX2 support...

SteamOS 3.7 Stable Rolls Out With Updated Linux Kernel, Expanding AMD Handheld Support

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 05:01
Valve today released SteamOS 3.7.8 to their stable channel as the first stable version of their Arch Linux based SteamOS 3.7 operating system...

Ubuntu 25.10 Switching To Chrony By Default, Enabling Network Time Security

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 03:00
Ubuntu 25.10 is joining the likes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise that are using Chrony as their Network Time Protocol (NTP) implementation. Ubuntu 25.10 is switching over to Chrony in enabling Network Time Security (NTS) support on Ubuntu Linux...

Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket

Fri, 05/23/2025 - 01:25
Mozilla announced today it's going to be shutting down its Pocket read-it-later bookmarking service this summer...

Canonical Planning For Linux 6.17 To Power Ubuntu 25.10

Thu, 05/22/2025 - 23:20
The Canonical Kernel Team confirmed their plans today that with the Ubuntu 25.10 release in October they are planning to employ the Linux 6.17 kernel...

Intel Announces New Xeon 6 CPU Models With SST-TF & Priority Core Turbo "PCT"

Thu, 05/22/2025 - 23:00
Adding on to the Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" CPU family are today three new models focused on delivering enhanced GPU-accelerated AI performance...

Maximizing The Performance & Power Efficiency Of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Platform Profiles

Thu, 05/22/2025 - 22:20
Last week I began posting Linux benchmarks of the flagship "Strix Halo" SoC, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with powerful Radeon 8060S graphics using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop. Both the CPU and GPU results for the data published thus far have been mighty impressive and done at the Ubuntu Linux defaults... But the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 within the ZBook Ultra G1a can be pushed even further by leveraging the ACPI Platform Profiles capabilities. In this article is showing how much further performance -- and the power costs -- can be achieved out of this AMD Strix Halo SoC when leveraging the HP Power Profiles as well as the power efficiency for those wanting to run the SoC instead in the "power saver" / "low power" configuration.

PoCL 7.0 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On x86_64 CPUs

Thu, 05/22/2025 - 20:30
PoCL 7.0 is out today as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that originally was started for supporting CPU-based OpenCL execution but with time and in leveraging LLVM back-ends has added support for OpenCL atop AMDKFD / NVIDIA PTX / Intel Level Zero and other possible back-ends...

FFmpeg FFV1 Vulkan Encoder Lands +35% Improvement For AMD, +50% For NVIDIA

Thu, 05/22/2025 - 20:00
FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format. Merged this week to FFmpeg Git were more enhancements to their Vulkan-based FFV1 encoder and yielding big performance improvements for both AMD and NVIDIA graphics processors...

AMD Preparing For Some Nice GPU Reset Improvements Under Linux

Thu, 05/22/2025 - 18:14
Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards...

MSI Linux Driver Aims For Parity To Windows App For The Claw Gaming Handhelds

Thu, 05/22/2025 - 18:02
A recently posted patch series for the MSI WMI platform driver is aiming this open-source driver to reach parity with MSI's official Windows application/driver for the MSI Claw gaming handheld systems...

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