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Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 03:55
Eric Engestrom is once again serving as the Mesa release manager and today took to forking the Mesa 24.2 codebase followed by issuing the first release candidate...

AMD XDNA Ryzen AI Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Review

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 02:30
Back in January AMD quietly posted an XDNA Linux kernel driver for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs. The driver has been maintained within that GitHub repository since but without any clear effort for getting this accelerator driver reviewed and merged into the upstream Linux kernel. Today that first step is finally being taken with the Ryzen AI XDNA Linux kernel driver patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and dri-devel to begin facilitating the upstream review process for getting this AI accelerator driver in the mainline kernel...

Rusticl In Mesa 24.2 Now Supports OpenCL Read-Write Images

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 22:29
Red Hat developer Karol Herbst continues improving the support for Rusticl, the Rust-based modern OpenCL implementation for Mesa's Gallium3D drivers...

Linux 6.11 Lands Support For Snapdragon X1 Elite ASUS Vivobook S15 & Lenovo Yoga Slim7x

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 21:49
All of the SoC and platform updates slated for the Linux 6.11 kernel have been merged including new SoCs and adding DeviceTree files for a number of new systems, including some of the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops...

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