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Intel Upstreams libsycl SYCL Runtime Library Into LLVM

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 20:55
For several years now Intel has been working on SYCL support within LLVM and various related efforts like the LLVM SPIR-V back-end as part of their oneAPI ambitions and Data Parallel C++ across their spectrum of hardware. The latest hitting upstream LLVM is libsycl as a SYCL run-time library...

Raja Koduri Announces New GPU Software & IP Startup - OXPython For CUDA AI On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 20:33
Oxmiq Labs exited stealth mode today as a new startup led by Raja Koduri of AMD / Apple / Intel fame to focus on GPU software and licenseable graphics IP. Oxmiq Labs is a new GPU software and IP startup that has been in development for two years already and built a team of talented GPU and AI architects...

SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 18:52
For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling...

FFmpeg Delivers Very Nice Performance Gains For Bwdif Deinterlacing With AVX-512

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 18:38
FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week was enhancing the Bwdif deinterlacing video filter with a 23~28x speed-up over the basic C code path when using AVX-512...

Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 18:28
Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...

Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 18:12
Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though they issued an update to their legacy driver branch for helping with the graphics compute support on those older hardware platforms...

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