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Intel Xe Driver Seeing PMT Support For Alchemist & Battlemage

Phoronix - Fri, 06/21/2024 - 17:55
The Intel Xe driver is working on supporting PMT functionality with a new set of patches that may be mainlined for Linux v6.11~6.12...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 "AIC100" Firmware Upstreamed

Phoronix - Fri, 06/21/2024 - 03:57
While not talked about as much as the likes of the Intel Gaudi accelerators with their upstream Habana Labs kernel driver or the AMD Instinct MI300 series with their open-source upstream support too, back in 2022 Qualcomm did post an open-source kernel driver for their Cloud AI accelerator. That was followed by an open-source compiler and user-space stack and in turn the QAIC driver was upstreamed into the accelerator (accel) subsystem last year with Linux 6.4...

Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 06/21/2024 - 01:15
Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors and newer. This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of OpenVINO...

Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon

Phoronix - Fri, 06/21/2024 - 00:36
While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September, the mainline Linux kernel support for this popular single board computer continues to lag behind the state of Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel. SUSE has been working to upstream various Raspberry Pi 5 driver support while now Raspberry Pi engineers have also begun the trek toward upstreaming their kernel graphics driver support...

GNOME Shell Accent Color Support Merged For GNOME 47

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 22:38
In addition to Mutter seeing Wayland DRM lease protocol support merged, another long-in-development patch series hit GNOME Shell this morning: accent color support!..

GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 22:11
Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland...

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