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AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users   Radeon   2024-04-21
AMD Prepares More Next-Gen GPU Driver Support For Linux 6.10   Radeon   2024-04-14
Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant   Radeon   2024-03-04
Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues   Radeon   2024-03-04
Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4   Radeon   2024-02-29
AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More New Stuff" For Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement   Radeon   2024-02-19
PSP 14.0 & Other New AMD Graphics IP Enablement Continues For Linux Ahead Of RDNA4   Radeon   2024-02-14
AMDGPU Driver Changes Begin For Linux 6.9: RAS ACA Framework, SEQ64 Infrastructure & Fixes   Radeon   2024-02-11
AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For Video Core Next 5 "VCN 5.0"   Radeon   2024-02-08
AMD Enables VCN Region Of Interest "ROI" Video Encoder Support For Linux GPU Drivers   Radeon   2023-12-17
RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables VCN Encoder Intra-Refresh Support   Radeon   2023-11-18
Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality   Radeon   2023-11-04
Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available For Radeon Graphics On Linux   Radeon   2023-10-12
AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New VPE & UMSCH Components With Future GPUs   AMD   2023-08-24
AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V   Radeon   2023-07-28
New AMD Zen CPU & Radeon GPU Microcode Land In Linux-Firmware.Git   AMD   2023-07-24
AMD Graphics Driver In Linux 6.5 Improves Power Management, Adds CP Shadow Buffer   Radeon   2023-06-03
AMD Adds AV1 Video Encoding Support To Mesa VA-API   Radeon   2023-04-27
RadeonSI Change Allows For Balancing RDNA3 Video Transcoding Between Multiple Engines   Mesa   2023-04-17
AMD Instinct MI300 "GFX940" Support Merged To Mesa 23.1   Mesa   2023-04-07
AMD Continues Linux Driver Enablement For Additional "Aldebaran" Instinct GPU   Radeon   2023-03-27
Mesa 23.0.1 Released With Many Fixes For Intel / AMD / Zink   Mesa   2023-03-26
Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck   Radeon   2023-03-18
Mesa 23.1 RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video Decoding For H.264/H.265   Radeon   2023-02-07
AMD Sends In More RDNA3 Graphics Driver Fixes For Linux 6.3   Radeon   2023-01-28
AMD Publishes New Firmware Binaries For Upcoming Hardware   AMD   2023-01-25
RADV Vulkan Video Making Progress On H.264 Encoding   Radeon   2022-12-29
Mesa 22.3.1 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-12-15
AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Firmware Upstreamed   Radeon   2022-12-14
RadeonSI Driver Lands Multi-Slice Video Encoding For AVC/HEVC   Radeon   2022-10-13
Microsoft Adds AV1 Decode Support To Their Mesa D3D12 Driver   Microsoft   2022-09-30
Thanks Microsoft: RadeonSI Enables Async VA-API For Faster Video Acceleration   Mesa   2022-09-27
Amazon Engineer Adds LTR Encode Support To Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Driver   Radeon   2022-09-19
AMD Lands New GPU Firmware Binaries In Linux-Firmware.Git   Radeon   2022-09-13
AMD Lands Video Encoding Quality Improvements For Mesa 22.3   Radeon   2022-08-24
AMD Has A Bit More RDNA3 Graphics Driver Code Ready For Linux 5.20   Radeon   2022-07-27
AMD Makes More RDNA3 GPU Driver Preparations For Linux 5.20   Radeon   2022-07-05
Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver   Mesa   2022-05-18
Mesa 22.2 RadeonSI Adds Option To Disable AMD Infinity Cache Usage, Other Changes   Radeon   2022-05-17
More AMD RDNA3 Code Prepared For Linux 5.19, RADV Begins Landing Task Shaders   Radeon   2022-05-12
Initial AMD GFX11 / RDNA3 Support Lands In Mesa, RADV Prepares For Task Shaders   Mesa   2022-05-10
AMDGPU Linux Driver Enabling New "LSDMA" Block   Radeon   2022-05-06
AMD Begins Working On "GFX11" Support For Open-Source Mesa Linux Graphics (RDNA3)   Radeon   2022-05-05
AMD Continues Posting New Patch Series For Next-Gen RDNA3 GPUs   Radeon   2022-05-03
AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New "VCN 4.0" IP Block   Radeon   2022-05-02
AMD Readies Initial Batch Of Radeon Graphics Driver Code For Linux 5.19   Radeon   2022-04-15
Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen   Mesa   2022-04-14
Updated AMDGPU Firmware Published To Deal With A Possible VCN Hang   Radeon   2022-04-11
AMD "EFC" Support Added To Mesa 22.1 For Radeon GPUs With VCN 2.0   Radeon   2022-03-11
Updated AMD APU Firmware Helps Systems Stuck On High Memory Clocks, Wasting Battery   Radeon   2022-02-28
More AMD Radeon Driver Improvements Lined Up For Linux 5.18   Radeon   2022-02-26
AMD Quietly Working On New Linux GPU Driver Support Block By Block   Radeon   2022-02-18
Better AMD Radeon VCE Video Encode Performance Coming To Linux   Radeon   2021-12-30
Vulkan Video Support Progressing For Open-Source Intel, AMD Radeon Hardware   Vulkan   2021-11-15
Linux 5.16 To Bring Initial DisplayPort 2.0 Support For AMD Radeon Driver (AMDGPU)   Radeon   2021-09-27
AMDGPU Linux Driver To Overhaul Its Approach To Device Enumeration   Radeon   2021-09-21
AV1 VA-API Acceleration Coming For AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Linux Users   Radeon   2021-08-13
Radeon "Cyan Skillfish" Navi 1x APU Submitted For Linux 5.15 Plus Many Fixes   Radeon   2021-07-30
H.264 SVC / Temporal Encoding Wired Up For AMD's Linux Graphics Driver   Radeon   2021-07-26
AMDVLK 2021.Q2.1 Finally Adds Navi 12 Support   Radeon   2021-04-07
VCN Load Balancing, LTTPR, More Aldebaran + Other Changes For Radeon In Linux 5.13   Radeon   2021-04-02
Linux 5.11.5, 5.10.22 Released With Headless AMD Navi 12 SKU Backported   Linux Kernel   2021-03-09
VCN-Less Navi 12 SKU, RX 6000 Series BACO Runtime PM Are Extras For Linux 5.12   Radeon   2021-03-04
IBM Begins Adding GCC Support For Z Arch14 - Likely IBM z16   GNU   2021-03-02
AMD Radeon "Aldebaran" GPU Support Published For Next-Gen CDNA   Radeon   2021-02-24
AMD Sends In More "New Stuff" For Radeon Graphics With Linux 5.12   Radeon   2021-01-15
Mesa 21.0 Adds Radeon HEVC SAO Encode Support   Radeon   2020-12-04
AMD Stages More Driver Updates For New GPUs With Linux 5.11   Radeon   2020-11-26
AMD Lands AV1 Decode For Radeon RX 6000 Series In Mesa   Radeon   2020-11-17
AMD Sends In Green Sardine Support For Linux 5.10, Hawaii BACO Reset   Linux Kernel   2020-11-04
AMD Adds Secure Video Playback To Their Open-Source Linux Driver   Radeon   2020-11-04
AMD Navi "Blockchain" Card Support Being Added To Linux 5.10   Radeon   2020-10-29
AMD Linux Driver Preparing For A Navi "Blockchain" Graphics Card   Radeon   2020-10-21
Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September   Phoronix   2020-10-01
Linux 5.9 Gets More Fixes For AMD RDNA2 GPUs, Promotes Navi 12   Radeon   2020-09-30
AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Support For Van Gogh APUs - Confirms DDR5 Memory, VCN3   Radeon   2020-09-25
Ray-Tracing Support For AMDGPU LLVM Back-End Lands For RDNA 2   Radeon   2020-09-16
AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding   Radeon   2020-09-15
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Supports AV1 Accelerated Video Decoding   NVIDIA   2020-09-01
AMD Lands VCN 3.0 Video Encode Support For Navi 2 / Sienna Cichlid   Radeon   2020-06-18
AMD Radeon Linux Driver Sees Patches For New "Sienna Cichlid" GPU   AMD   2020-06-01
AMD Lines Up Another Batch Of Radeon Graphics Fixes For Linux 5.8   Radeon   2020-05-27
AMDGPU TMZ Support Wired Up For Linux 5.8   Radeon   2020-05-01
Many AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.8   Radeon   2020-04-25
AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8   Radeon   2020-04-14
AMD Begins Focusing On Bug Fixes For Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Code   Radeon   2020-03-20
AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support   Radeon   2020-01-17
Mesa 19.3.2 Released With All The Intel + AMD Driver Fixes From Over The Holidays   Mesa   2020-01-09
Radeon Linux 5.6 Changes Begin Queuing - Better Power Management, Adds DMCUB Controller   Radeon   2019-12-11
The Big Graphics Driver Update Lands In Linux 5.5 With Exciting Changes For Intel + AMD   Linux Kernel   2019-11-28
Linux 5.5 Cycle Kicks Off Next Week With Exciting Changes On Tap   Linux Kernel   2019-11-22
AMD Volleys Another Batch Of Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.5   Radeon   2019-11-09
AMD Sends In More "Arcturus" GPU Code For Linux 5.5   Radeon   2019-11-02
AMD "Trusted Memory Zone" Encrypted vRAM Support Coming To Their Linux GPU Driver   Radeon   2019-09-11
Vega-Based Renoir APU Has The Same VCN Video Encode/Decode Block As Navi   Radeon   2019-09-09
AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Driver Support For "Renoir" APUs   AMD   2019-08-09
Mesa 19.1.4: Intel Vulkan Fixes For Older Generations, Max Payne 3 Issue Fixed For RADV   Mesa   2019-08-04
AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Driver Support For Navi 12 GPUs   Radeon   2019-08-01
RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets Wired For Compute-Only Arcturus To Handle Video Decode   Radeon   2019-07-30
AMD Sends Out Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "Arcturus" As New Vega Derived GPU   Radeon   2019-07-15
AMD Sends In Navi Support & Other Remaining AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.3   Radeon   2019-06-23
Libdrm Picks Up Support For AMD Navi   Radeon   2019-06-21
AMD Posts 459 Linux Kernel Patches Providing Navi Support - 412k+ Lines Of Code   Radeon   2019-06-17
Mesa 19.0.2 Released With A Few RadeonSI, RADV, V3D Fixes   Mesa   2019-04-11
Mesa 18.3.6 Released To End Out The Series   Mesa   2019-04-05
New Radeon Vega IDs & Fixes Land Ahead Of Linux 4.21-rc1   Radeon   2019-01-06
A Lot Of AMDGPU DC Fixes, New VegaM PCI ID Line Up For Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-12-29
The Most Notable New Features Of The Linux 4.20 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-12-20
The Shiny New Features Of Mesa 18.3 For Open-Source Intel / Radeon Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2018-11-13
The Big DRM Graphics Driver Pull Request Has Been Submitted For Linux 4.20~5.0   Linux Kernel   2018-10-25
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Handles PRIME-Style Rendering, Raven Ridge Lands VCN JPEG Decode   Mesa   2018-10-24
Mesa VCN JPEG Decode Patches Posted For AMD Raven Ridge   Mesa   2018-10-17
The Biggest Features Of Linux 4.19: Intel/AMD, CoC, 802.11ax, EROFS, GPS & GASKET   Linux Kernel   2018-10-16
AMD Stages A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 4.20~5.0 - Plus Vega 20 "MGPU Fan Boost"   Radeon   2018-10-11
The Great Work In DRM-Next: More Icelake, Vega 20, xGMI & Other Additions   Linux Kernel   2018-10-07
Vega 20 Compute Driver Support, Picasso DPG Added To Linux 4.20~5.0 Queue   Radeon   2018-09-28
AMDGPU Driver Gets Patches Enabling Two More Interrupt Rings On Vega 10   Radeon   2018-09-26
AMD Picasso APUs To Support VCN Dynamic Power Gating   AMD   2018-09-25
In-Progress AMDGPU Updates For Linux 4.20~5.0 Have DC Update, New Polaris ID   Radeon   2018-09-22
AMD Preps For A Big Linux 4.20 Kernel With Vega 20, Picasso, Raven 2, xGMI, Better DC   Radeon   2018-09-15
More AMDGPU Work For Linux 4.19 Has VCN + PSP Firmware Hookup For Future Hardware   AMD   2018-08-17
DRM Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 With New VKMS Driver, Intel Icelake Work   Linux Kernel   2018-08-15
A Number Of AMDGPU DRM Fixes Prepped Ahead Of Linux 4.19   Radeon   2018-08-02
The DRM Changes Coming With The Linux 4.19 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-07-25
Initial AMDGPU Driver Changes Submitted For Linux 4.19   Radeon   2018-06-21
AMDGPU On Linux 4.18 To Offer Greater Vega Power Savings, DisplayPort 1.4 Fixes   Radeon   2018-06-01
AMDGPU Patches Prepping JPEG Support For "Video Core Next"   AMD   2018-05-30
Vega 20 GPU Support & VCN Clock/Power Gating Sent In For Linux 4.18   Radeon   2018-05-24
Mesa 18.0.3 Released With A Handful Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-05-07
The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides   Mesa   2018-05-04
AMD Posts VP9 VA-API Video Acceleration For Gallium3D   Radeon   2018-04-09
Mesa 18.0 Officially Released With Plenty Of OpenGL & Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2018-03-27
Mesa 18.0 Should Arrive Today With Many Vulkan/OpenGL Driver Improvements   Mesa   2018-03-23
UVD-Based HEVC Video Encoding Main Now Supported In Mesa 18.1   Radeon   2018-02-24
Mesa 17.3.4 Released With 90+ Changes   Mesa   2018-02-15
RadeonSI VCN Encode Now Supports HEVC Main   Radeon   2018-02-06
Radeon VCN Gets Mesa Patches For HEVC Main Video Encode   AMD   2018-01-25
AMDGPU Firmware Blobs Updated For Video Encode/Decode   Radeon   2018-01-19
The RADV Vulkan Driver Is Shy Of 40,000 Lines Of Code   Radeon   2017-12-19
The Many Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver Advancements Of 2017   Radeon   2017-11-30
Radeon VCN Encode Support Lands In Mesa 17.4 Git   Mesa   2017-11-17
Radeon VCN Encode Support For RadeonSI Gallium3D   Radeon   2017-11-07
Radeon VCN Video Decode Support Lands In Mesa   Radeon   2017-05-25
Raven Ridge, VCN Decode Support Patches Posted For Gallium3D   Radeon   2017-05-10
AMD Posts Initial Patches For Raven APU Support: 117 Patches, 314k L.O.C.   AMD   2017-05-10
Intel's Braswell NUC Trips On Fedora 22 But Runs Fine On Ubuntu 15.04   Intel   2015-07-15