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AMD Adds New AMDGPU LLVM Targets For Older GPUs In Cleanup

Phoronix - Sun, 10/11/2020 - 08:38
Seeing new AMDGPU targets added to mainline LLVM for aging Radeon GFX7/GFX8 graphics hardware wasn't what I expected to see this weekend...

Intel Media SDK 20.3 Released With AV1 Decode, Rocket Lake + DG1/SG1 Support

Phoronix - Sun, 10/11/2020 - 02:39
Just over one week ago Intel released the Media Driver 2020.3 with Gen12/Xe AV1 decode and other improvements for their quarterly feature release of this open-source video acceleration driver. They have also now released their adjoining Media SDK 20.3 open-source update...

KDE Plasma 5.21 To Bring Multi-GPU Support For Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 23:45
KDE developers have been busy not only putting the finishing touches on the soon to be released Plasma 5.20 but also early feature work continues on what will be Plasma 5.21...

AMD Sends Out Latest SFH Linux Driver Patches

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 20:49
It was in January that AMD finally published an open-source Linux driver for their Sensor Fusion Hub used by AMD Ryzen laptops for various sensor functionality. As we approach the end of the year this driver still hasn't been mainlined yet but a new revision was sent out on Friday...

RADV ACO Lands NGG Geometry Shader Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 18:27
Adding to the growing list of Mesa 20.3 features is now RADV ACO supporting NGG GS. Or rather, the Radeon Vulkan driver with the ACO back-end now supports geometry shaders with Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) as found on newer AMD GPUs...

Wine-Staging 5.19 Adds Windows.Networking.Connectivity

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 15:48
Following yesterday's release of Wine 5.19, the developers responsible for the Wine-Staging have issued their corresponding update for this codebase that adds 600+ patches currently undergoing testing...

5 qualities of great open source developer advocates

opensource.com - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 15:00

The developer relations job category is less than 10 years old, and the developer advocate role is even newer. In essence, developer advocates represent the voice of the user—in this case, that's usually the developer—internally to the company and the voice of the company externally to the community.


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Intel's Latest Compute Code Is Enabling OpenCL 3.0 For All Hardware Since Broadwell

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 12:00
Intel's next Compute Runtime release is going to be exciting as OpenCL 3.0 will be enabled for all graphics hardware found going back to Broadwell CPUs...

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