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PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 19:24
PoCL 5.0-RC1 is out today as the newest feature release being brewed for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that allows for OpenCL code to run on CPUs as well as running OpenCL code on other back-ends such as atop NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm and other LLVM back-ends...

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 08:12
Friday's release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It's coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time...

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...

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