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A Number Of Fedora 43 Features/Changes Delayed To Fedora 44

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 04:43
A number of yet-to-be-completed changes/features have been delayed from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44 while permission is granted for a few features to still land late in the Fedora 43 cycle...

Rusticl vs. Intel Compute Runtime Performance For OpenCL On Battlemage

Phoronix - Wed, 08/27/2025 - 00:00
Earlier this month I ran some benchmarks of Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver against AMD ROCm on Strix Halo. Those benchmarks caught many by surprise with how well that Rust-based open-source OpenCL driver was working on AMD GPUs for being a generic OpenCL implementation built atop Mesa's Gallium3D. For those curious about the potential of Rusticl on the Intel graphics side, here are some Battlemage benchmarks for Rusticl up against Intel's official Compute Runtime driver stack.

Framework Laptop 16 Upgrade Announced With Ryzen AI 300 Series, GeForce RTX 5070

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 23:40
While the Framework 13 was upgraded earlier this year with a motherboard upgrade for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point", the larger Framework 16 has been stuck in the Zen 4 era. But today Framework announced a new upgrade path for this 16-inch modular laptop for the Ryzen AI 300 series as well as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 discrete graphics...

LLVM 21.1 Released With AMD GFX1250 Target, Improved RISC-V, New C/C++ Features

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 22:28
LLVM 21.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack. This half-year stable release to the open-source LLVM compiler software brings new hardware support, new language features, and a lot of other enhancements throughout this massive and widely-used codebase...

Open-Source R300 Driver Adds New OpenGL Extensions For Two Decade Old Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 21:08
While the ATI Radeon 9000 / X300 / X500 / X600 series "R300" GPU support has long been unmaintained on the Microsoft Windows driver side, thanks to the open-source community the Linux driver support keeps going for the old ATI R300 GPUs with that driver also supporting the X700 / X800 "R400" and X1000 "R500" series graphics cards too. Two more OpenGL extensions are now wired up for the old R300 Gallium3D driver within Mesa...

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