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New AMD Zen CPU & Radeon GPU Microcode Land In Linux-Firmware.Git

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 21:54
Both new AMD Zen CPU and Radeon GPU microcode/firmware have been published today to the linux-firmware.git tree...

RadeonSI + ACO Now Supports Monolithic Merged Shaders

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 18:47
Qiang Yu continues leading the charge on integrating the ACO compiler back-end into the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as an optional alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

More FUTEX2 Additions Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 18:35
Merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.16 was the FUTEX2 code to help with Linux gaming needs particularly around Steam Play. There were plans to further extend FUTEX2 and now two years later there's been recent patches working out more enhancements to this interface...

Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 18:18
The most popular topic among the emails I received this weekend weren't of direct technical nature but the number of people pointing out Twitter's new "X" logo and the similarities to the X.Org logo...

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