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AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 01/17/2025 - 19:38
Due to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) lead maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat going on holidays the next two weeks, he's preemptively submitted the DRM/accelerator feature pull request ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window officially opening...

In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators

Phoronix - Fri, 01/17/2025 - 19:14
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team landed some changes on Thursday to the open-source RADV driver within Mesa around GPU checks for the hardware supported by this popular AMD Vulkan driver on Linux systems...

RadeonSI UVD/VCE Video Acceleration Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.0

Phoronix - Fri, 01/17/2025 - 18:59
At the start of the new year I talked about patches improving AMD Radeon video encode/decode for older GPUs. That work to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's UVD and VCE support has now been merged ahead of the Mesa 25.0 code branching coming up in just over one week...

8 Best Free Courses to Learn Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tecmint - Fri, 01/17/2025 - 14:29
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Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and GPT-4 are transforming how we interact with artificial intelligence. These models can generate

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PCI Express 7.0 Remains On Track For 2025, v0.7 Spec Published

Phoronix - Fri, 01/17/2025 - 09:25
Back in 2022 the PCI Express 7.0 specification was announced with hitting 128 GT/s and planned availability in 2025. Since then they have been iterating on the spec with PCI-SIG members and today they announced the PCI Express 7.0 v0.7 specification...

The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 23:58
With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here's a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first major kernel release of 2025...

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