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Broadcom Bringing Up Linux Support For VK Accelerators

21 February 2020, 01:10 AM

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Broadcom developers have been recently volleying open-source Linux driver patches for enabling their "VK Accelerators" on the platform...

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21 February 2020, 01:12 AM

I almost thought you meant Broadcom made Vulkan accelerators?... o-o
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21 February 2020, 01:58 AM

Is this possibly related to Mount Shasta (Facebook video transcoding project with Broadcom as one of the partners)?
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21 February 2020, 12:42 PM

Hm, interesting. I wonder if this is for game streamers? Or maybe for servers used by streaming services.
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21 February 2020, 06:07 PM

In a future they could come in handy to add AV1 decoding/encoding support to a computer.
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