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Radeon RADV Lands Emulated ETC2 Support For Improving Android Support

Phoronix - Tue, 12/14/2021 - 20:32
While the ETC2 texture compression standard is royalty-free and popular for OpenGL / GLES / Vulkan use, recent AMD Radeon GPUs and APUs have removed their native support for this alternative to the likes of ASTC and S3TC. But now in Mesa 22.0 there is emulated ETC2 support for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver to in turn improve this open-source driver's Android support...

LLVM Working On "HIPSPV" So AMD HIP Code Can Turn Into SPIR-V And Run On OpenCL

Phoronix - Tue, 12/14/2021 - 18:37
Upstreaming progress is being made on a new "HIPSPV" toolchain for AMD's HIP path so that SPIR-V kernels can be executed and ultimately allowing for execution by OpenCL drivers. This HIPSPV effort driven outside of AMD aims to be able to allow HIP code to work on other GPU drivers such as those from Intel...

Fedora 36 Planning To Use plocate As New "locate" Replacement

Phoronix - Tue, 12/14/2021 - 18:15
Fedora 36 is planning to use plocate as its new provider of the locate command for finding files on file-systems. Plocate should make for even faster locating of files on disk as well as doing so using less CPU cycles...

ARMv8.8-A Support With New MOPS Instructions Ready For GCC 12

Phoronix - Tue, 12/14/2021 - 18:00
The latest GCC Git activity for next year's GCC 12 compiler is adding of ARMv8.8-A support...

Play the drums on Linux with Hydrogen

opensource.com - Tue, 12/14/2021 - 16:01

Much of today's music features the exacting work of a drum machine. The term might make you think of a drum set with mechanical levers and cranks armed with drumsticks, but all it actually refers to is a synthesizer programmed to play drum sounds. A good drum machine programmer (often also a drummer) can make a drum machine sound either hyper-robotic (if that's the sound the producer's going for) or almost human, with nuance and swing.


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6 ideas for building an equitable partner program for your open source project

opensource.com - Tue, 12/14/2021 - 16:00

The organizations that partner with you to contribute to your open source project deserve recognition. But there is more to showcasing these organizations than simply adding a logo to your website.


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Fedora 36 To Support OSTree Native Containers / CoreOS Layering

Phoronix - Tue, 12/14/2021 - 04:30
Fedora 36 feature work continues building up for what will make another exciting update to this Linux distribution come April. The latest approval is more exciting work on the OSTree / CoreOS front...

Radeon ROCm 4.5.2 Adds Kernel Driver Installer Support, Various Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/14/2021 - 03:45
A minor update to AMD's Radeon Open eCosystem "ROCm" software is out today for open-source GPU computing...

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