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"Dozen" Merged Into Mesa For Implementing Vulkan On Direct3D 12

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 01:20
Merged a few minutes ago into Mesa 22.1 is the "Dozen" project implementing Vulkan atop Direct3D 12 APIs...

AMD's GPUOpen Releases Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 01:10
AMD today released Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0 under their GPUOpen umbrella as this library to better manage memory allocation and resources for this graphics API and make it more similar to APIs like OpenGL and Direct3D...

Intel Software Defined Silicon, AMD HSMP Submitted For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Fri, 03/25/2022 - 21:38
The x86 platform driver updates have been submitted for the Linux 5.18 kernel merge window. This pull request includes a number of notable additions we have been talking about over recent weeks and months on Phoronix...

AMD Making It Easier To Switch To Their New P-State CPU Frequency Scaling Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 03/25/2022 - 19:18
Following our how-to guide for enabling the new AMD P-State driver that premiered in Linux 5.17 after finding many users were unsure to go about using this new CPU frequency scaling driver, AMD is now making it easier to switch from ACPI CPUFreq to AMD P-State...

Zhaoxin Finally Adding "Lujiazui" x86_64 CPU Tuning To GCC

Phoronix - Fri, 03/25/2022 - 18:08
Introduced back in 2019 by the VIA + Shanghai owned Zhaoxin was the ZX-E / KX-6000 series x86_64 processors. Finally in 2022 the proper GCC compiler tuning support has been published for these processors that are part of the "Lujiazui" microarchitecture...

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