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Mesa 21.0 Aiming For Release Tomorrow With Windows DXGI Winsys, RDNA 2 Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:05
The Mesa release train once again rode off the tracks but this week looks like it will get back on track with hopes of releasing Mesa 21.0 on Thursday...

AMD Radeon "Aldebaran" Support Merged Into Mesa 21.1

Phoronix - Thu, 03/11/2021 - 03:55
The AMD Radeon "Aldebaran" successor to Arcturus has now landed the initial user-space code into Mesa 21.1...

AMD Clarifies ROCm Compute Support For GUI Applications

Phoronix - Thu, 03/11/2021 - 02:31
AMD recently added a notice to the ROCm repository reinforcing their focus on headless, non-GUI workloads while now that statement is being sort of retracted and they have clarified their support intentions around this open-source Radeon Open eCosystem driver stack...

Microsoft Security Researcher Proposes Unprivileged Chroot For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 03/11/2021 - 01:14
Security researcher and Microsoft engineer Mickaël Salaün is proposing unprivileged chroot support for the Linux kernel...

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