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More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 18:19
Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support...

Intel Hardware Support Expanded In EDAC Drivers For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 18:11
With the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates sent out this week for the Linux 6.16 kernel there is support for a number of newer Intel hardware platforms...

Mesa's Rusticl Lands Support For Shared Virtual Memory & Intel Subgroups

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 08:23
Rusticl as Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note... Merged this week was support for the Intel Subgroups OpenCL extension (cl_intel_subgroups) and before getting to that on my TODO list, an even bigger item was merged: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 03:40
Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems...

Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 03:15
The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphics drivers too as well as the other smaller drivers...

Git 2.50-rc0 Brings New Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 02:22
The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

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