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Intel Will Submit New Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Soon - Likely For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 03:27
It looks like Intel will soon be submitting their first Xe Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver pull request to DRM-Next for mainlining this modern, current and future hardware focused kernel graphics driver to be added to the mainline Linux kernel. It looks like this mainlining is set to still happen in time for the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle...

AMD Releases Radeon GPU Profiler 2.0, RGA 2.9 & Other GPUOpen Tools

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 02:00
Following yesterday's big AMD AI event where they launched the Instinct MI300A / MI300X and ROCm 6.0, today AMD engineers released Radeon GPU Profiler 2.0 along with other GPUOpen tooling updates...

Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 23:50
A new drm-misc-next pull request was sent today to DRM-Next bringing a few notable changes for the upcoming Linux 6.8 merge window...

KDE's KWin Adds DMA-Fence Deadline Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 23:27
KDE's KWin compositor has added DMA-Fence deadline support to its DRM back-end that can help ensure rendering is completed on-time and otherwise helping to boost the GPU clock speeds...

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