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PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 11:24am
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

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 12:12am
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

Thu, 07/12/2023 - 7:27pm
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

Thu, 07/12/2023 - 6:00pm
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

Thu, 07/12/2023 - 3:50pm
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

Thu, 07/12/2023 - 3:27pm
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...