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The VKMS Display Driver Continues Evolving Nicely For Headless Linux Systems

Phoronix - Wed, 10/25/2023 - 01:24
The VKMS driver as a virtual kernel mode-setting solution as a software-only implementation of KMS for use with primarily headless Linux systems continues tacking on more features. Maíra Canal and Melissa Wen presented last week at XDC 2023 on the VKMS driver that continues proving very useful for headless platforms as well as for testing purposes...

RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Cooperative Matrix Support Using RDNA3 WMMA

Phoronix - Tue, 10/24/2023 - 23:33
As yet another open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver change ahead of the upcoming Mesa 23.3 code branching and feature freeze is Vulkan VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix support with the RADV driver for RDNA3 hardware and newer using the GPU's Wavefront Mixed-precision Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) functionality...

Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support (PREEMPT_RT)

Phoronix - Tue, 10/24/2023 - 21:12
As we approach the end of 2023, sadly, the real-time kernel "PREEMPT_RT" support still hasn't been mainlined... The main blocker pending is still the ongoing work around non-blocking consoles / threaded console handling to then allow the few dozen remaining out-of-tree RT kernel patches to be merged. The good news is that when the PREEMPT_RT support is ready for mainline, it looks like the RISC-V architecture support will also be real-time friendly too...

AMD Making It More Clear When Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver Is Being Used

Phoronix - Tue, 10/24/2023 - 20:55
AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has been around for a decade since the Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" graphics card days while finally the OpenGL renderer string is being changed to reflect "RadeonSI" as the name of the driver in use...

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