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AMD RDNA3 ISA Reference Guide Published

Phoronix - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 00:30
Following last month's launch of the Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards, AMD's GPUOpen group has now published the instruction set architecture (ISA) programming guide for those interested in RDNA3 GPUs...

ASRock Industrial Partners With Canonical For Ubuntu-Certified Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 22:00
ASRock Industrial, the independent company spun out of ASRock that is focused on industrial computers, edge systems, hardware for retail environments, has now partnered with Canonical to begin offering certified devices for Ubuntu Linux...

Open-Source RADV Driver Adds Radeon Memory Visualizer Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 19:39
A six month old merge request to Mesa was finally merged today for enabling Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) support with the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Being Ported To NetBSD

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 19:26
NetBSD continues using the FFS file-system by default while it's offered ZFS support that has been slowly improving -- in NetBSD-CURRENT is the ability to use ZFS as the root file-system if first booting to FFS, for example. There may be another modern file-system option soon with an effort underway to port DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 over to NetBSD...

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Begins Running Talos Principle... Slowly

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 18:59
The NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs that has seen a lot of progress over the past year is now able to run some games like The Talos Principle, which was the launch title for Vulkan 1.0. While the NVK driver is correctly rendering, it's still slow until the kernel driver side is sorted out with re-clocking...

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