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AMD's Xilinx Posts New Linux DRM Display Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 05/13/2022 - 00:19
The AMD-owned Xilinx posted a new patch series today implementing a new DRM display driver for supporting their soft MIPI DSI Tx subsystem IP...

AMD Graphics Driver Surpassing 4 Million Lines Of Code In Linux 5.19, NVIDIA Opens Up At 1 Million

Phoronix - Thu, 05/12/2022 - 20:30
Given the NVIDIA open-source kernel driver code announcement from yesterday and also the Linux 5.19 merge window coming up soon with a host of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements and starting to prepare support for RDNA3, it's time for some fun with numbers around driver sizes...

Godot 4.0 Alpha 8 Game Engine Released With Some Nice Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/12/2022 - 19:22
Godot 4.0 continues working its way towards release as the most acclaimed open-source game engine. Godot 4.0 brings Vulkan rendering, OpenXR support, and a ton of other features covered in the past few years for making it more competitive with commercial game engines. Out this morning is Godot 4.0 Alpha 8 with a few more improvements worth noting...

More AMD RDNA3 Code Prepared For Linux 5.19, RADV Begins Landing Task Shaders

Phoronix - Thu, 05/12/2022 - 18:39
While open-source fans this morning are celebrating NVIDIA finally publishing open-source kernel driver code as a step to opening up their driver, open-source AMD Radeon driver developers are proceeding as normal and undeterred by NVIDIA's open kernel-only approach. Another batch of AMD graphics code was sent in this morning to DRM-Next and then over in user-space Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver has landed more task shader code...

Microsoft Releases CBL-Mariner 1.0 May 2022 Linux Distro Update

Phoronix - Thu, 05/12/2022 - 17:41
While this week Microsoft issued a production release of CBL-Mariner 2.0 as its in-house Linux distribution, they are continuing to maintain CBL-Mariner 1.0 for the time being and have overnight issued its newest monthly release...

NVIDIA CUDA 11.7 Brings Lazy Loading, Open GPU Kernel Driver Compatibility

Phoronix - Thu, 05/12/2022 - 17:16
Released on Wednesday alongside the R515 NVIDIA Linux driver beta and the open-source NVIDIA GPU kernel driver announcement was the launch of CUDA 11.7...

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