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RADV Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Fri, 05/09/2025 - 20:50
Introduced at the end of March was Vulkan 1.4.311 with VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for allowing BFloat16 "BF16" operations within SPIR-V shaders with SPV_KHR_bfloat16. This BFloat16 support can be beneficial for Vulkan machine learning / AI workloads and other use cases moving forward. Now the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is the newest wiring up support for VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16...

DeepComputing's DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard II For Framework Laptop Launches For $349

Phoronix - Fri, 05/09/2025 - 20:22
The past year we've been looking forward to a RISC-V motherboard option coming to the Framework Laptop 13 via Framework's partnership with DeepComputing. There was early access in late 2024 while this week DeepComputing has formally announced the DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC Mainboard II now available at $349 USD...

Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.17 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 05/09/2025 - 18:40
Out this morning is the Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.17 release as the newest version of their user-space Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver code that interfaces with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver...

Debian Looks To Better Address Ill-Maintained / Dormant Packages

Phoronix - Fri, 05/09/2025 - 18:23
Newly re-elected Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille posted today to the project's mailing list a few updates about different happenings in the Debian world ahead of the Debian 13 "Trixie" release due out in the coming months and also with DebConf 25 happening this July in Brest, France...

Intel Xe Driver With Linux 6.16 Brings Controls For PCIe Link Downgrading On Battlemage

Phoronix - Fri, 05/09/2025 - 18:15
In addition to the Intel LOBF feature and some other last minute Intel fixes going into the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) tree ahead of Linux 6.16, a final batch of material for the newer Xe kernel graphics driver was also sent out this week...

Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Wires Up More Features Used By VKD3D-Proton

Phoronix - Fri, 05/09/2025 - 18:06
Mesa developer Konstantin Seurer has been adding more features to the Lavapipe Vulkan driver for functionality needed by VKD3D-Proton for mapping Direct3D 12 APIs atop Vulkan...

How to Run Old DOS Games and Apps Using DOSBox-X

Tecmint - Fri, 05/09/2025 - 14:00
The post How to Run Old DOS Games and Apps Using DOSBox-X first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Ever wanted to play classic DOS games or run old compilers like Turbo C++ or MASM for assembly programming? If

The post How to Run Old DOS Games and Apps Using DOSBox-X first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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