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New Patches Extend AMD EDAC Linux Driver For Data Center GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 05/15/2023 - 21:00
The AMD EDAC Linux driver for Error Detection And Correction of AMD x86_64 CPU/memory errors is now being extended for handling AMD data center GPUs like the Instinct MI200 series and newer where any error reporting/correction information can now be propagated to this existing driver...

Coreboot 4.20 Released With Two More Dozen Motherboards Supported

Phoronix - Mon, 05/15/2023 - 20:15
Coreboot 4.20 has been released as the newest feature release for this project continuing to provide open-source system firmware/BIOS for Chromebooks, servers, and a range of laptops and desktops...

RadeonSI Can Begin Using Valve's ACO Compiler For Certain Shaders

Phoronix - Mon, 05/15/2023 - 18:29
Beginning today with the newest Mesa 23.2-devel code, the environment variable option AMD_DEBUG=useaco is now available for telling the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to use Valve's ACO shader compiler back-end rather than the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end for supported shader types...

RADV Adds Support For VK_EXT_tooling_info

Phoronix - Mon, 05/15/2023 - 18:09
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has added support for the small but useful VK_EXT_tooling_info extension...

Wine-Staging 8.8 Down To Less Than 500 Patches Atop Wine

Phoronix - Mon, 05/15/2023 - 17:48
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.8 is the Wine-Staging experimental/testing blend that carries hundreds of extra patches atop this open-source software for leveraging Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...

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