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Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 06:05
Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...

AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 04:50
While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem stack...

NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 23:54
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...

AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 22:30
With the Mesa 25.2 open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics driver code having been branched last week ahead of its stable release in August, I carried out some fresh benchmarks on AMD's exciting Strix Halo platform using the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics to see where the Linux performance is now at for the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics.

EROFS Implementing Metadata Compression For Even Smaller Image Sizes

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 20:46
The EROFS read-only file-system ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window has been working on metadata compression support to allow for even smaller container image sizes but at the cost of higher I/O latency...

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