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AMD CDX Being Prepared For Linux As The Bus Between Future APUs & FPGAs

Phoronix - Wed, 01/18/2023 - 00:14
After quietly posting a "request for comments" patch series a few months back to no fanfare, AMD today published their post-RFC patch series today for introducing the AMD CDX bus to the Linux kernel. AMD CDX is ultimately for the interface/bus between the APU and FPGA(s) with future hardware...

Apple Launches The M2 Pro & M2 Max + New Mac Mini With M2 / M2 Pro

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 23:43
Apple today announced their M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs found in new Apple MacBook Pro devices and they have also updated their Mac Mini computers with the M2 and interestingly even offering a model with the M2 Pro SoC...

More AMD Zen 4 Compiler Tuning Work Lands In GCC 13

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 21:00
SUSE compiler engineer Jan Hubicka has landed some additional AMD Zen 4 "znver4" CPU target tuning ahead of the upcoming GCC 13 stable compiler release...

RBOS Updated As The Linux Live Environment Showcasing The Latest Wayland Code

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 20:02
For over a decade now RebeccaBlackOS "RBOS" has been around as a live Linux environment intended to showcase the latest Wayland code from various desktops/compositors to other Wayland-native software. RBOS pre-dates many of the major Linux distributions offering any Wayland support out-of-the-box...

VK_MESA_video_decode_av1: Early Vulkan AV1 Decoding For Open-Source Radeon Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 19:30
While the Vulkan Video extensions were introduced provisionally nearly two years ago and Vulkan Video 1.0 firmed up in December, sadly to date they have been focused on H.264 and H.265 video acceleration. VP9 and AV1 extensions for Vulkan Video are expected in 2023, but in advance of the cross-vendor extensions, VK_MESA_video_decode_av1 has been devised as an extension enabling RADV accelerated video decode with AMD Radeon GPUs...

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