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Airlie: "Why Sharing Code With Windows Isn't Always A Win"

Phoronix - Thu, 11/12/2020 - 04:55
Following the news today of Intel sharing ~60% of their GPU driver code-base between Windows and Linux and working to bring the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) to Mesa in 2021, not everyone is enthusiastic about those prospects...

FFmpeg Lands Support For NVIDIA AV1 Video Decoding With RTX 30 + NVDEC

Phoronix - Thu, 11/12/2020 - 02:49
Adding to the growing list of changes for the next FFmpeg release is now AV1 video decoding with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards...

Intel's Graphics Driver Now Sharing ~60% Codebase Between Windows/Linux, 90~100% The Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 22:01
Intel today is announcing their Server GPU for the data center based on their Xe-LP microarchitecture with an initial focus on high-density, low-latency Android cloud gaming and media streaming. For as exciting as the Intel Server GPU is, some exciting Intel Linux graphics driver details were also disclosed.

AMD + IBM Team Up To Tackle Confidential Computing

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 20:00
AMD and IBM are this morning announcing a multi-year, joint development agreement focused on "building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive Confidential Computing in the cloud and support a broad range of accelerators across high-performance computing (HPC), and enterprise critical capabilities such as virtualization and encryption."..

GCC 11 Lands Support For Intel AVX-VNNI

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 19:30
GCC 11 feature development is ending very shortly but landing in time are the patches last month for adding AVX-VNNI support...

Mesa 20.3-RC1 Released With Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan, Raspberry Pi V3DV Added

Phoronix - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 19:02
Following the Mesa 20.3 branching on Monday and subsequent opening of Mesa 21.0 for development, the first release candidate of Mesa 20.3 is now available for testing...

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