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Ahead Of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04 Has AMD SEV-SNP Host Support

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 08:57
While Ubuntu 25.04 has been shipping since April and following software support already upstreamed into the Linux kernel and related virtualization components, Ubuntu maker Canonical today put out a blog post to announce their AMD SEV-SNP host support found in Ubuntu 25.04. This complements the guest-side support present since Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and is an important milestone on the host-side ahead of next year's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...

Tinygrad 0.11 Released With AMD MI350 Support, NVIDIA Blackwell

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 05:43
Tinygrad 0.11 is out as the newest version of this deep learning framework maintained by Tiny Corp...

Pinned Device Memory Patches For Intel's Multi-GPU "Project Battlematrix" Linux Efforts

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 00:12
As part of Intel's ongoing Project Battlematrix efforts that include SR-IOV support for Arc Pro cards as well as multi-device (multi-GPU) support for allowing up to eight Intel Arc Pro graphics cards in a single system, today Intel engineers posted their preliminary Linux driver patches for pinned device memory functionality that is important for multi-GPU usage...

Rusticl vs. AMD ROCm Performance On Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo"

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 22:00
One of the set of tests I have been meaning to carry out for a number of months has been comparing the Mesa Rusticl performance to different dedicated hardware drivers. Rusticl is the Rust-based OpenCL 3.0 driver within Mesa that works across Gallium3D drivers and over the past many months has been maturing rather well. Among the targets I have been wanting to compare is how well Rusticl competes with the AMD ROCm OpenCL implementation for Radeon GPUs. Given all the interest recently around Strix Halo and the Framework Desktop as well, today's benchmarking is looking at the performance between these different OpenCL driver implementations for the Radeon 8060S Graphics.

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