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AMD XDNA Ryzen AI Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Review

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 02:30
Back in January AMD quietly posted an XDNA Linux kernel driver for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs. The driver has been maintained within that GitHub repository since but without any clear effort for getting this accelerator driver reviewed and merged into the upstream Linux kernel. Today that first step is finally being taken with the Ryzen AI XDNA Linux kernel driver patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and dri-devel to begin facilitating the upstream review process for getting this AI accelerator driver in the mainline kernel...

Rusticl In Mesa 24.2 Now Supports OpenCL Read-Write Images

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 22:29
Red Hat developer Karol Herbst continues improving the support for Rusticl, the Rust-based modern OpenCL implementation for Mesa's Gallium3D drivers...

Linux 6.11 Lands Support For Snapdragon X1 Elite ASUS Vivobook S15 & Lenovo Yoga Slim7x

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 21:49
All of the SoC and platform updates slated for the Linux 6.11 kernel have been merged including new SoCs and adding DeviceTree files for a number of new systems, including some of the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops...

NVIDIA's EGL-Wayland Library v1.1.14 Adds Explicit Sync

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 20:27
NVIDIA's EGL-Wayland library continues to be maintained as an EGLStream-based Wayland external platform library for client-side Wayland support to EGL atop EGLDevice/EGLStream...

Intel Panther Lake, Realtek RT1318 & Other Sound Hardware Supported By Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 19:02
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has sent out all of the sound driver patches for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel...

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