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Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 22.6.5 Brings AV1 & VP9 Encode Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 01/26/2023 - 13:00
Following the recent release of the Intel Media Driver 2022Q4, Intel's oneVPL GPU runtime has been updated for its quarterly feature release that builds atop the Media Driver / VA-API stack and is about oneAPI integration for the video processing layer...

AMD Working To Upstream New AMDGPU/AMDKFD Compute Debugger API

Phoronix - Thu, 01/26/2023 - 05:30
AMD sent out a set of 32 kernel patches today for their AMDKFD/AMDGPU kernel driver code in providing upstream support for debugging of their GPU compute instruction set architecture (ISA)...

Arm Helping With AArch64 Rust Linux Kernel Enablement

Phoronix - Thu, 01/26/2023 - 03:30
Much of the Rust programming language support/infrastructure for the Linux kernel thus far has been with an x86_64 focus while obviously AArch64 is an important target as well. It's nice to see Arm Limited engineers working on the Rust Linux kernel support for AArch64/ARM64...

The Performance Impact From Different Arch Linux Kernel Flavors

Phoronix - Thu, 01/26/2023 - 01:00
Arch Linux has five different officially supported kernel builds: stable, hardened, long-term. real-time, and Zen, but which of these is the fastest for desktop Arch Linux users? Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance out of these different kernel build options for Arch Linux and its derivatives.

Google Engineer Introduces "Light AVX" Support Within LLVM

Phoronix - Wed, 01/25/2023 - 22:00
Google engineer Ilya Tocar has introduced the notion of "light" AVX support within the LLVM compiler infrastructure for utilizing some benefits of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) but trying to avoid the power/frequency impact that AVX-512 use has on older generations of Intel processors...

AMD Publishes New Firmware Binaries For Upcoming Hardware

Phoronix - Wed, 01/25/2023 - 21:52
Hitting the linux-firmware.git tree this morning were new AMDGPU firmware files for IP blocks found on upcoming hardware. It's likely these new firmware files are for the forthcoming Ryzen 7040 series mobile processors with RDNA3 graphics...

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