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PoCL 3.0 Released With Minimal OpenCL 3.0 Implementation For CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/11/2022 - 01:00
PoCL 3.0 has been formally released today for this portable OpenCL implementation that supports execution on CPUs or other back-ends by way of LLVM such as for targeting AMD HSA, NVIDIA GPUs, and other accelerators. With PoCL 3.0 comes initial OpenCL 3.0 support while the actual conformance results are still pending...

Blender 3.2 Performance With AMD Radeon HIP vs. NVIDIA GeForce On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 06/10/2022 - 21:00
This week's release of Blender 3.2 brings AMD GPU rendering support on Linux via AMD's HIP interface in conjunction with their ROCm compute stack. Eager to see the AMD GPU support on Linux finally arrive, I quickly began trying out this new Blender open-source 3D modeling software release while seeing how the AMD RDNA2 HIP performance compares to that of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs that have long enjoyed top-notch support under Blender.

Apple M1 Affected By "PACMAN" Hardware Vulnerability In Arm Pointer Authentication

Phoronix - Fri, 06/10/2022 - 19:00
MIT CSAIL today is lifting the embargo on a new hardware vulnerability affecting the Apple M1 SoCs (no word yet on exposure with the recently announced Apple M2) and dubbed the "PACMAN" attack...

Ubuntu Working To Provide Good Support For The VisionFive Low-Cost RISC-V Board

Phoronix - Fri, 06/10/2022 - 17:48
In recent weeks Ubuntu developers have been working on bringing up and improving support for the Starfive VisionFive, which is one of the most promising "low-cost" RISC-V single board computers to date. Hopefully for Ubuntu 22.10 we'll be seeing good support for this sub-$180 RISC-V computer...

Panfrost's Initial Arm Mali Valhall Support Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Fri, 06/10/2022 - 17:25
With the Linux 5.19 merge window past, the initial batch of drm-misc-next feature changes targeting the Linux 5.20 kernel have been mailed in to DRM-Next for queuing until that next kernel merge window kicks off later in the summer...

Sound Open Firmware 2.2 Preparing More Optimizations, More Zephyr Usage

Phoronix - Fri, 06/10/2022 - 17:11
It was just back in April that Sound Open Firmware 2.1 released as the newest version of the open-source audio DSP firmware stack started by Intel and also even being used by other select hardware vendors as well. Sound Open Firmware 2.2 is on the way as the newest feature release for Intel's "SOF" project...

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