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AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 22:57
Queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle is an FRU Memory Poison Manager "FMPM" developed by AMD that may later be adapted for other non-AMD platforms. The FRU Memory Poison Manager is working to persist information around known bad/faulty memory across reboots...

Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 22:00
George Hotz with Tiny Corp that is working on Tinygrad and TinyBox for interesting developments in the open-source AI space has previously called out AMD over ROCm issues. Yesterday yielded new tweets by "the tiny corp" over AI training runs crashing with MES errors and then called for AMD open-sourcing the firmware to which AMD CEO Lisa Su has responded...

LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 20:00
Out today is the big LLVM/Clang 18.1 release. Due to shifting to a new versioning scheme like GCC, today's LLVM 18.1 release is the first major stable release in the new series for what previously would have been called LLVM 18.0...

RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 19:41
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team recently wrapped up experimental support for the RADV Vulkan driver for EXT_shader_object support using Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) on RDNA3/GFX11 graphics processors...

UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 19:26
UWSM is short for the Universal Wayland Session Manager and it incorporates systemd's help in managing the Wayland compositors...

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