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Khronos Makes Improvements To OpenCL SDK, Plots Roadmap

Phoronix - Fri, 04/08/2022 - 00:16
It's been nearly one year since Khronos released OpenCL 3.0 while today they are shipping some improvements to the OpenCL Software Developer Kit (SDK)...

"Kopper" Merged Into Mesa As A Big Win For Zink

Phoronix - Thu, 04/07/2022 - 19:21
Merged into Mesa 22.1-devel this morning is Kopper, a big improvement particularly for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code...

Fedora Makes Progress On Radeon ROCm Packages, But Still Needs To Land OpenCL / HIP

Phoronix - Thu, 04/07/2022 - 18:16
Last year Fedora developers and users were discussing the packaging of ROCm components to make it easier to deploy this Radeon open-source GPU compute stack. Five months later, some of the Radeon Open eCosystem components have made it into Fedora for easier installation but the HIP and OpenCL front-ends to ROCm haven't yet been successfully packaged...

Linux 5.19 To Try To Opportunistically Initialize /dev/urandom

Phoronix - Thu, 04/07/2022 - 17:44
Linux 5.18 is bringing many random/RNG improvements thanks to the work of kernel developer Jason Donenfeld. One of the changes though that had to be backed out during the merge window was trying to get /dev/random and /dev/urandom to behave exactly the same. While reverted for now with the 5.18 code, Donenfeld has prepared a change that should get it into good shape for major architectures with the next kernel cycle...

DRM-Misc-Next Sends In First Batch Of Graphics/Display Driver Changes For Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Thu, 04/07/2022 - 17:30
We are less than one week out from the Linux 5.18 merge window having ended and already the first pull request of "drm-misc-next" material has been submitted to DRM-Next for staging until the Linux 5.19 cycle rolls around in late May...

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