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Qualcomm Adreno 700 Series GPU Support Published For Open-Source Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 21:53
Linaro engineers have been working out support for the latest-generation Qualcomm Adreno 700 series graphics processors found in the newest Snapdragon SoCs. Published on Wednesday were the initial MSM DRM kernel driver patches for bringing up the A700 series open-source graphics support...

AMD ROCm 5.6 Released With A Focus On Improving AI

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 18:36
It was just one month ago that ROCm 5.5.1 debuted while overnight AMD has promoted ROCm 5.6 to stable with more improvements and a particular focus on enhancing the AI capabilities for Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators. The ROCm 5.6 release also arrives just two weeks after AMD CEO Lisa Su re-affirmed their support for ROCm and working with the community to further enhance it...

Many Intel & AMD Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.5: Intel VRR, More MTL, RDNA3 Overclocking

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 18:25
DRM subsystem maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat has sent out the big batch of feature updates to this collection of open-source graphics/display drivers for Linux 6.5...

OpenCV 4.8 Released With TensorFlow Lite Model Support, AVIF Image Handling

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 18:07
OpenCV 4.8 was released yesterday as the newest feature update to this leading open-source computer vision (CV) library...

Linux 6.5 Crypto Adds New AMD CCP Hardware, StarFive RISC-V Bits

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 17:56
Herbert Xu has submitted the crypto subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window with new hardware support and some crypto API enhancements...

Intel Pushes New Meteor Lake-S Driver Code Into Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 17:37
For months there have been rumors whether Intel would cancel Meteor Lake-S desktop processors and leave next-generation Core desktop CPUs solely to a Raptor Lake Refresh or rumors as well Meteor Lake-S would be just for lower-end Core i3 and Core i5 level processors. Whatever Intel ends up doing, their Linux engineers continue pushing Meteor Lake-S related code into the Linux kernel...

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