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Rusticl OpenCL Still Striving For Better Performance, SYCL & HIP Features

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 21:52
Karol Herbst at Red Hat who leads development on Mesa's Rust-written OpenCL "Rusticl" driver presented to share the progress made over the course of the year on this modern alternative to Gallium3D's Clover as well as some of the work still being pursued by this open-source OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers...

Mesa 23.3 Merges Initial Support For RDNA3 Refresh "GFX11.5" Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 18:47
For going along with the initial GFX11.5 kernel support that is set to be introduced in Linux 6.7 along with other portions of new AMD Radeon graphics IP enablement, this quarter's Mesa 23.3 release will also bring initial GFX11.5 graphics support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 18:22
Lutris 0.5.14 is out today as the newest feature update to this Python-written open-source solution for managing your games on Linux whether they be native titles or via Steam Play / Wine as well as integrating into popular gaming services like Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and EA App. With Lutris 0.5.14 this centralized Linux game launcher has picked up some additional capabilities...

AMD Completes Nod.ai Acquisition To Enhance Open-Source AI Capabilities

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 05:15
It was just over one week ago that AMD announced plans to acquire Nod.ai to enhance their open-source AI software capabilities. Today already they announced that acquisition has completed...

Linux's DRM GPUVM Code Relicensed From GPLv2-Only To GPLv2 Or MIT

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 05:01
Sent out today were a new batch of drm-misc-next changes intended for Linux 6.7. There's various fixes to the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers, DRM VM_BIND async documentation, and other small changes. Plus the DRM_GPUVM code has been re-licensed from being GPLv2-only to now GPLv2 or MIT...

AMD Family 19h CPU Microcode Updated (2023-10-19 Rev)

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 03:02
AMD today published a new CPU microcode revision for Family 19h processors, which include Zen 3 / Zen 3+ / Zen 4 processors. As is sadly standard, no change-log is provided...

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