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Freedreno Gallium3D Lands Basic Support For "Clover" OpenCL

Phoronix - Tue, 11/16/2021 - 13:00
Mesa 22.0 development code now has basic support in the Freedreno Gallium3D driver for OpenCL powered by the Clover state tracker...

FreeBSD Improving Boot Times, Adds Hole-Punching, Better Linux Binary Compatibility

Phoronix - Tue, 11/16/2021 - 08:30
The FreeBSD project has published their latest quarterly status report highlighting the work achieved on this open-source BSD operating system. Even with the pandemic and limitations on physical events, the FreeBSD developers continue making significant progress on their goals and technology road-map...

Fedora Drafts Plans For Retiring ARMv7 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 11/16/2021 - 04:16
It's crazy to think it has already been ten years since Arm disclosed ARMv8 with 64-bit support. Given the success of ARMv8 (and Armv9 now on the way) and there not being much in the way of useful ARMv7 hardware in recent years and the like, Fedora has drafted plans for retiring its ARMv7 support...

LWJGL 3.3 Released For This Popular Java Library - OpenCL 3.0 Added, New Bindings

Phoronix - Tue, 11/16/2021 - 03:30
The Lightweight Java Game Library "LWJGL" has seen its first release in more than two years for this library that provides bindings for a number of different native APIs. With not seeing a release since before the pandemic, there is a lot in store with today's LWJGL 3.3 release...

AMD Releases Updated Zen 3 CPU Microcode (November 2021)

Phoronix - Tue, 11/16/2021 - 03:09
A new Family 19h microcode binary was merged today into the linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the central source for all of the binary firmware/microcode files for Linux systems...

Git 2.34 Released With Sparse-Enabled Index Feature, More Performance Work

Phoronix - Tue, 11/16/2021 - 02:57
Git 2.34 is out today as the newest feature update to this widely-used, distributed version control system...

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