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Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Optimization To Help GravityMark, Other Demanding Software

Phoronix - Mon, 10/23/2023 - 20:22
Following an FCV optimization for the latest Intel graphics hardware, ASTC LDR emulation, some still-pending Vulkan sparse support for ANV atop the existing i915 driver, and other recent Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver optimizations, another optimization was just merged into Mesa 23.3...

Etnaviv NPU Support Coming Together, Mesa Upstreaming Next

Phoronix - Mon, 10/23/2023 - 18:45
The Etnaviv Gallium3D driver within Mesa has long been focused on reverse engineering and supporting Vivante graphics IP found in various SoCs. That driver has worked out well for open-source OpenGL support for Vivante graphics while more recently Etnaviv has begun tackling Vivante neural processing unit (NPU) support that is beginning to be found in various SoCs...

Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping

Phoronix - Mon, 10/23/2023 - 18:15
After the Raspberry Pi 5 was excitingly announced a few weeks ago, Eben Upton shared today that ramping up the production has gone better than initially anticipated and that these AArch64 single board computers are beginning to ship to customers...

Linux 6.6-rc7 Released: Linux 6.6 Final Likely Next Sunday

Phoronix - Mon, 10/23/2023 - 07:20
Linus Torvalds today released the seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.6 while is hoping to release the stable kernel version next weekend...

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