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Intel Spins Up Revised GNA Driver For AI Neural Co-Processor

Phoronix - Sat, 10/22/2022 - 01:30
While Intel with the rest of the tech industry continue investing immense resources in areas around AI and talking it up, one of the efforts that has been slow to materialize on the Linux side has been for enabling their Gaussian and Neural Accelerator (GNA) with the mainline Linux kernel. This week the latest Intel GNA driver patches were posted for this neural co-processor...

Mesa Git Makes It Easier Activating Rusticl OpenCL Device Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/21/2022 - 22:30
The very promising Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL implementation within Mesa has landed a set of patches today that make it easier to enable the OpenCL compute device support with the various Gallium3D drivers...

Linux TUN Network Driver May See A "1000x Speedup" With New, One-Line Patch

Phoronix - Fri, 10/21/2022 - 20:30
Linux's universal TUN driver that provides packet reception and transmission for user-space programs may soon see a 1000x speed-up with a proposed patch sent out today for this network driver...

AMDVLK 2022.Q4.1 Brings More Vulkan Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Fri, 10/21/2022 - 20:13
AMD today published their latest open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver update, AMDVLK 2022.Q4.1, as their first source update in three weeks...

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