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AMD GCN3 / Fiji Support Being Retired From The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2024 - 22:36
The AMD GCN3 (GFX8) support and in particular the Fiji GPU support is being retired from the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The Fiji GPU support in the GCC compiler was already deprecated in part due to the LLVM compiler having already removed Fiji support months ago and the AMD ROCm compute driver having broken GCN3 / Fiji support for years...

New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2024 - 20:47
One year ago the first Rust-written network PHY driver was merged for the Linux 6.8 kernel. Since then we've continued seeing steady progress on more Rust-written Linux network code. With the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window another Rust PHY driver is set to be introduced...

Intel Compute Runtime 24.31.30508.7 Brings Initial Xe2 Platform Support

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2024 - 19:00
Intel Compute Runtime 24.31.30508.7 was released this morning as the newest version of this OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack used on both Windows and Linux platforms. Notable with the Intel Compute Runtime 24.31.30508.7 is having initial Xe2 support...

GNOME Mutter 47.rc Ships Experimental Color Management Protocol

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2024 - 18:34
Ahead of this week's GNOME 47 release candidate announcement the "47.rc" versions of the GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday...

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