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Ubuntu Announces Architecture Variants: Ubuntu 25.10 Gets x86_64-v3 Packages

Phoronix - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 18:11
Canonical today announced an exciting step forward for Ubuntu Linux: the notion of architecture variants and now initially providing an Ubuntu 25.10 archive with x86_64-v3 built packages for enjoying better performance on modern Intel and AMD hardware...

AMD ROCm 7.1 Release Appears Imminent

Phoronix - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 17:55
AMD continues with their aggressive efforts to enhance their GPU software compute ecosystem with ROCm. The fire under them has been lit and they have been taking their software efforts more expeditiously in recent times to better compete with NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem and ensuring their Instinct hardware is properly primed to compete. The release dance has begun for ROCm 7.1...

AMDGPU With Linux 6.19 Will Support Analog Video Connectors For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 05:48
Following last week's initial batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes intended for Linux 6.19, another round of new AMDGPU / Radeon / AMDKFD material was sent out today to DRM-Next. Notable with this pull is the Display Core "DC" work for analog video connectors as the initiative from one of Valve's contractors for improving the Radeon GCN 1.0 era GPU support with the AMDGPU driver...

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