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Freedreno Now Supports The Qualcomm Adreno 644 GPU

Phoronix - Sun, 12/31/2023 - 18:20
Igalia's Danylo Piliaiev has contributed support to the Freedreno Gallium3D driver in Mesa 24.0 for supporting the Qualcomm Adreno 644 graphics...

ScummVM 2.8 Gets More Games Running

Phoronix - Sun, 12/31/2023 - 05:06
ScummVM 2.8 is out this New Year's weekend to end out 2023 by getting more games running on this open-source software that started out re-implementing LucasArts adventure games and other game titles...

RAO-INT Instructions Will No Longer Premiere With Intel Grand Ridge

Phoronix - Sat, 12/30/2023 - 23:23
Added last year to the open-source compilers were Intel RAO-INT instructions for upcoming Intel CPUs. RAO-INT as new atomic ADD / AND / OR / XOR instructions were to debut with Intel's Grand Ridge SoC but now that is apparently no longer the case...

Fedora 40 Looks To Provide Optimized x86_64 Binaries For Different HWCAPs

Phoronix - Sat, 12/30/2023 - 22:51
In addition to Ubuntu exploring the possibility of x86_64-v3 builds/packages, a proposal has been raised for Fedora Linux with its current Fedora 40 cycle to provide the ability to offer optimized x86_64 (AMD64) binaries based upon the CPU's x86_64 micro-architecture feature level...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Exposes Cooperative Matrix Support

Phoronix - Sat, 12/30/2023 - 22:15
Merged on Friday for Mesa 24.0-devel in Q1 is support for the VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix extension with Intel's "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...

LuxCoreRender 2.8 Alpha Released With Initial Blender 4.x Integration

Phoronix - Sat, 12/30/2023 - 22:04
LuxCoreRender as the open-source (Apache 2.0) physically based renderer is working on its next major release. While LuxCore can be used standalone both via its own UI and a console, there is Blender integration too with Blender 4.x support being one of the main focal points of the v2.8 series...

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