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Etnaviv NPU Support Coming Together, Mesa Upstreaming Next

Phoronix - Mon, 10/23/2023 - 18:45
The Etnaviv Gallium3D driver within Mesa has long been focused on reverse engineering and supporting Vivante graphics IP found in various SoCs. That driver has worked out well for open-source OpenGL support for Vivante graphics while more recently Etnaviv has begun tackling Vivante neural processing unit (NPU) support that is beginning to be found in various SoCs...

Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping

Phoronix - Mon, 10/23/2023 - 18:15
After the Raspberry Pi 5 was excitingly announced a few weeks ago, Eben Upton shared today that ramping up the production has gone better than initially anticipated and that these AArch64 single board computers are beginning to ship to customers...

Linux 6.6-rc7 Released: Linux 6.6 Final Likely Next Sunday

Phoronix - Mon, 10/23/2023 - 07:20
Linus Torvalds today released the seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.6 while is hoping to release the stable kernel version next weekend...

QLogic 10Gb "QLGE" Ethernet Driver Set To Be Removed From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 10/23/2023 - 02:32
For those that happen to have QLogic 10Gb PCIe Ethernet adapters, the mainline Linux kernel is planning to remove this driver from the kernel source tree unless any active users step-up...

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