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RADV Driver Switches To 100% Dynamic Rendering

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 18:38
Last month I wrote about the work being done by Jason Ekstrand for switching RADV completely over to dynamic rendering. That work has now panned out and as of a few minutes ago the transition to "100%" dynamic rendering for RADV has landed in Mesa 22.3...

AMD Prepares More RDNA3 Code, New GPU Reset Mode For RX 6000 Series With Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 18:24
AMD has submitted an initial big batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.1 merge window...

Software Freedom Conservancy Votes To Accept Sourceware.org

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 18:02
For the past two decades Red Hat has been behind Sourceware.org for providing hosting for open-source projects like Cygwin, GNU GCC, GDB, Glibc, and many other projects. While Red Hat continues to sponsor the hosting and having their employees be involved with the Sourceware.org maintenance, etc, for ensuring a secured future they have been looking to hookup with the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). The SFC has now voted in favor of accepting this long-time open-source hosting service into their umbrella...

RADV Ray-Tracing Now Works With AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 17:35
Thanks to Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" now works with the AMD/GPUOpen Radeon GPU Profiler...

Linux 6.1 To Drop Radeon DRM Driver's Legacy & Broken DP MST Code

Phoronix - Fri, 09/09/2022 - 17:06
In addition to the drm-misc-next pull from earlier in the week, another set of Direct Rendering Manager updates for the core DRM code and smaller drivers has now been submitted for DRM-Next...

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