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Microsoft Working On AMD GPU Hotplug Support For Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 04/07/2022 - 00:15
Here is a combination not normally expected... Microsoft engineers have submitted patches for review enabling AMD GPU hot-plugging support with the Radeon "AMDGPU" Linux kernel driver...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ready With Mesa 22.0, Early Intel Arc Graphics Enabled & Amber Added

Phoronix - Wed, 04/06/2022 - 20:30
At the end of March Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish" successfully transitioned from the former Mesa 21.3 series to Mesa 22.0 as the current stable series for these open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers. There are also a few changes to mention with Ubuntu 22.04's Mesa support this LTS cycle...

AMD Readies Linux Patches For x2AVIC Support

Phoronix - Wed, 04/06/2022 - 19:37
Back in February AMD engineers sent out a "request for comments" on x2APIC virtualization (x2AVIC) support. Those patches have now been refined beyond the RFC state and sent out today as a patch series for further review on the Linux kernel mailing list...

Tachyum Gets FreeBSD Running On Their Prodigy ISA Emulation Platform For AI / HPC

Phoronix - Wed, 04/06/2022 - 18:16
Tachyum is a startup working on "the world's first universal processor" that can be used from AI to HPC to hyperscale computing needs. The Tachyum processor aims to replace the needs of discrete TPUs / GPUs / XPUs into a single homogeneous processor architecture. While still running as an emulated platform, Tachyum has announced that in addition to Linux they have managed to boot and run FreeBSD on their ISA...

Mesa 22.1 Open-Source Vulkan Drivers Prepare Support For New Extensions

Phoronix - Wed, 04/06/2022 - 17:45
Ahead of the upcoming Mesa 22.1 feature freeze, the Mesa Vulkan drivers both big and small have been preparing merge requests for wiring up a number of recently introduced Vulkan extensions...

New Wayland Protocol Proposed For Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Wed, 04/06/2022 - 17:19
A new Wayland protocol has been proposed for dealing with fractional scaling of surfaces that paired with wp_viewport can be used for achieving fractional scaling...

AMDVLK 2022.Q2.1 Released With Fixes, New Extension

Phoronix - Wed, 04/06/2022 - 16:43
It had been over one month since the last AMDVLK code drop while now has been succeeded by a new AMDVLK version bring one new extension and several fixes...

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