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Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan
Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan
7 June 06:35 AM EDT - Virtualization - VirtIO Sync Objects - 2 Comments

Queued via drm-misc-next and now on its way to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle is support in the VirtIO GPU DRM driver for the synchronization object user-space API. This is important for Vulkan and is working with the Venus/Virgl driver context as well as Intel/AMDGPU/Freedreno native contexts too.

OpenZFS 2.1.12 Released With Linux 6.3 Compatibility
OpenZFS 2.1.12 Released With Linux 6.3 Compatibility
7 June 05:48 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1.12 - 10 Comments

OpenZFS 2.1.12 is now available as the latest version of this out-of-tree ZFS file-system kernel driver that works on Linux now with the latest 6.3 kernel stable series all the way back to the v3.10 kernel. Plus OpenZFS 2.1.12 also works on FreeBSD 12.2 and newer.

6 June

RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel
RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel
6 June 12:20 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 40 Comments

It's been a while since last looking at the Zink performance for this OpenGL implementation built atop the Vulkan APIs, but with all of the Zink progress by Valve's Mike Blumenkrantz and others, here is a fresh round of testing. This article is seeing how for Mesa Git the performance of Zink on the RADV Vulkan driver compares to that of the native RadeonSI driver while testing with both the Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards.

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP
openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP
6 June 09:30 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Leap 15.6 - 14 Comments

The soon-to-be-released openSUSE Leap 15.5 was going to be the last of the openSUSE Leap 15 series, but now openSUSE/SUSE has decided there will be an openSUSE Leap 15.6 release to allow additional time for their Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) to be developed.

More AMD Heterogeneous System Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.5
More AMD Heterogeneous System Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.5
6 June 06:36 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Heterogeneous System - Add A Comment

A few new AMD heterogeneous system patches have been queued via TIP.git ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window. These newest AMD Linux patches are focused on proper heterogeneous system enumeration for AMD data center systems sporting the Instinct MI200 and newer accelerators.

5 June

Phoronix.com Turns 19 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware, Open-Source News
Phoronix.com Turns 19 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware, Open-Source News
5 June 05:00 PM EDT - Phoronix - Phoronix Turns 19 - 37 Comments

Today marks nineteen years since I started Phoronix.com for covering the Linux hardware space. It's been a wild ride from the days of 56K modems, graphics driver pains, and having to use NDISWrapper for WiFi device driver support on Linux, among many other Linux hardware pains in the early days. These days the open-source GPU driver scene is far better off, Linux hardware support overall is great, companies continue investing massively into Linux/open-source thanks to the success in the server space over the past two decades, and the Steam Deck has proven to be one of the most interesting Linux-powered consumer devices in recent years.

Intel's Codeplay Announces oneAPI Construction Kit For Bringing SYCL To New Hardware
Intel's Codeplay Announces oneAPI Construction Kit For Bringing SYCL To New Hardware
5 June 09:50 AM EDT - Intel - oneAPI Construction Kit - 1 Comment

Codeplay Software, which was acquired by Intel last June, has an exciting announcement to make today in the form of the oneAPI Construction Kit. This open-source project aims to help ease bringing up SYCL on new processor/accelerator architectures, particularly around HPC and AI. The oneAPI Construction Kit also has a reference implementation for RISC-V.

MIDI 2.0 Driver Support Coming With Linux 6.5
MIDI 2.0 Driver Support Coming With Linux 6.5
5 June 06:28 AM EDT - Multimedia - MIDI 2.0 - Add A Comment

Last month Linux's sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai published a set of Linux driver patches for MIDI 2.0 support for the USB Audio and Raw MIDI drivers. That roughly six thousand lines of new code for the MIDI 2.0 driver coverage is now expected to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle.

4 June

RadeonSI ACO Code Lands More Functionality
4 June 06:40 AM EDT - Mesa - RadeonSI + ACO - 16 Comments

The ACO "Amd COmpiler" started by Valve for the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has shown it can do wonders for Linux gaming performance and reducing game load times compared to AMD's official AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. Recently thanks to the work of Qiang Yu there has been much work hitting upstream Mesa for beginning to enable using the ACO compiler by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver.

3 June

AMD Has Open-Source Ryzen AI Demo Code - But Only For Windows
3 June 07:56 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Ryzen AI - 19 Comments

One of the most interesting aspects of the new AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptop processors is the new "Ryzen AI" capabilities with the new XDNA AI engine capabilities built into the SoC, leveraging IP from their Xilinx acquisition. Linux support details remain scarce but at least one of their (Windows) demos for showcasing Ryzen AI is open-source.

Intel Continues Finalizing UEFI Unaccepted Memory Support For Linux
3 June 08:34 AM EDT - Hardware - Unaccepted Memory - 2 Comments

With Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP for better securing virtual machines on the mainline Linux kernel, memory is accepted/initialized immediately at boot time by the VMs although the capability exists to have "unaccepted memory" where that memory is only dealt with by the VMs later on or on an as-needed basis. For two years now Intel engineers have been working on this unaccepted memory support and this week posted their thirteenth iteration of these fundamental Linux kernel patches.

Portable Computing Language 4.0 Adds Intel Level Zero API Driver
3 June 06:30 AM EDT - Programming - PoCL 4.0 - Add A Comment

The Portable Computing Language "PoCL" began as an open-source CPU-based OpenCL implementation that has become quite a comprehensive implementation over the years. But in leveraging the LLVM/Clang compiler stack, over time PoCL has grown beyond just a CPU implementation to also support OpenCL execution on NVIDIA GPUs, AMD HSA-capable GPUs, and more. The latest now coming with PoCL 4.0 is support for Intel Level Zero execution for running this OpenCL implementation over Intel Arc Graphics GPUs.

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