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ZLUDA Has Been Seeing New Activity For CUDA On AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/15/2024 - 22:28
Back in February I wrote about AMD having quietly funded the effort for a drop-in CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs built atop the ROCm library. This was an incarnation of ZLUDA that originally began as a CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs using oneAPI Level Zero. While AMD discontinued funding ZLUDA development earlier this year, this CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs is continuing to see some new code activity...

XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience

Phoronix - Wed, 05/15/2024 - 20:41
Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan just announced the stable release of XWayland 24.1 as the newest feature release for this X.Org Server code allowing X11 clients to work within the confines of Wayland compositors...

Linux 6.10 Networking Adds New Intel Hardware Support, More WiFi 7 Enablement

Phoronix - Wed, 05/15/2024 - 20:34
The networking subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.10 kernel. As usual it's a big update with some 90,083 new lines of code and 37,889 lines removed...

AMDVLK 2024.Q2.1 Driver Adds Phoenix 2 APU Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/15/2024 - 20:04
It's been the better part of two months since the last AMDVLK driver update while today the AMDVLK 2024.Q2.1 driver has been christened...

Arm Mali/Immortalis GPU Driver, New AMD Graphics IP & Lunar Lake Display In Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Wed, 05/15/2024 - 18:37
The big batch of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates for the Linux 6.10 merge window were sent out today that includes the new "Panthor" driver for newer ARM Mali/Immortalis graphics processors and the usual hearty assortment of Intel and AMD graphics driver changes...

Mir 2.17 Better Supports Hybrid Graphics & Other Wayland Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 05/15/2024 - 18:24
https://github.com/canonical/mirCanonical engineer Matthew Kosarek just released Mir 2.17 as the newest version of this open-source Wayland compositor that can be used for building Wayland-based shells and has shown some interesting potential with the likes of Miracle-WM and Miriway...

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