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Experimenting Underway To Support Mesa Vulkan Drivers Written In Rust

Phoronix - Fri, 02/03/2023 - 01:10
While there is Rusticl as the first Rust language code within Mesa as a modern OpenCL implementation in Gallium3D, for possible future driver efforts there is some initial exploratory work being done around coming up with bindings to support writing of Vulkan drivers with Rust...

GNU Debugger Adds Support For Debugging AMD ROCm / HIP Code

Phoronix - Thu, 02/02/2023 - 23:38
The GNU Debugger "GDB" has landed initial support for being able to debug AMDGPU/ROCm platform code with a preliminary focus on HIP programs...

RPM Lands Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Feature Levels

Phoronix - Thu, 02/02/2023 - 20:30
The RPM package manager code has added support for the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels that allow for newer baseline targets than conventional x86_64. This support in RPM allows for installing RPMs built for newer feature levels on capable hardware...

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