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Intel Removing AMX-TRANSPOSE From The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 18:43
One year ago updated Intel documentation noted AMX-TRANSPOSE as one of the new ISA additions for Diamond Rapids. But in updated Intel architecture documentation last month, it oddly removed all references to AMX-TRANSPOSE. Confirming that the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) addition for TRANSPOSE is now dead, an Intel engineer posted a patch to remove AMX-TRANSPOSE from the GCC compiler...

ReactOS Making Progress On Windows WDDM Driver Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 18:33
The ReactOS project that continues striving toward being an "open-source Windows" ABI compatible operating system has been seeing some activity recently around supporting Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) display drivers as the newer evolution of XDDM drivers...

GNOME's Flatpak Runtime Drops 32-bit Compatibility Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 18:22
With last month's GNOME 49 release, the 32-bit Compatibility extension for the GNOME Flatpak Runtime is no more. This is part of the broader effort of phasing out 32-bit support...

Blender Experimenting With Vulkan Ray Queries

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 18:11
As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries...

Linux 6.18-rc1 Released With New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, Haptic Touchpads & DM-PCACHE

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 04:54
Linux 6.18-rc1 is now available for testing with the Linux 6.18 merge window closed. Linux 6.18 will be out in December and is anticipated to become this year's Linux LTS kernel version...

CLUDA Posted For Mesa: Gallium3D API Implemented Atop NVIDIA CUDA Driver API

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 18:52
Well, here is a weekend surprise... Red Hat engineer and Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst has opened a Mesa merge request for "CLUDA" as a compute-only driver that implements the Gallium3D API atop the NVIDIA CUDA driver API. Wow...

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