System76 engineers working on their COSMIC desktop environment for their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution continue to be quite busy working on this Rust-written desktop code…

Source: Phoronix – COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland Protocols

Vulkan 1.3.269 released this morning with new extensions from Arm and NVIDIA…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.269 Released With New Extension For Launching CUDA Kernels

Karol Herbst at Red Hat who leads development on Mesa’s Rust-written OpenCL “Rusticl” driver presented to share the progress made over the course of the year on this modern alternative to Gallium3D’s Clover as well as some of the work still being pursued by this open-source OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Rusticl OpenCL Still Striving For Better Performance, SYCL & HIP Features

For going along with the initial GFX11.5 kernel support that is set to be introduced in Linux 6.7 along with other portions of new AMD Radeon graphics IP enablement, this quarter’s Mesa 23.3 release will also bring initial GFX11.5 graphics support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3 Merges Initial Support For RDNA3 Refresh “GFX11.5” Graphics

Lutris 0.5.14 is out today as the newest feature update to this Python-written open-source solution for managing your games on Linux whether they be native titles or via Steam Play / Wine as well as integrating into popular gaming services like Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and EA App. With Lutris 0.5.14 this centralized Linux game launcher has picked up some additional capabilities…

Source: Phoronix – Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux

It was just over one week ago that AMD announced plans to acquire Nod.ai to enhance their open-source AI software capabilities. Today already they announced that acquisition has completed…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Completes Nod.ai Acquisition To Enhance Open-Source AI Capabilities

Sent out today were a new batch of drm-misc-next changesi ntended for Linux 6.7. There’s various fixes to the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers, DRM VM_BIND async documentation, and other small changes. Plus the DRM_GPUVM code has been re-licensed from being GPLv2-only to now GPLv2 or MIT…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s DRM GPUVM Code Relicensed From GPLv2-Only To GPLv2 Or MIT

AMD today published a new CPU microcode revision for Family 19h processors, which include Zen 3 / Zen 3+ / Zen 4 processors. As is sadly standard, no change-log is provided…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Family 19h CPU Microcode Updated (2023-10-19 Rev)

With the pending changes set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel, all known issues/limitations around the i915 kernel driver support for upcoming integrated graphics with Intel Meteor Lake laptop processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Declared Stable With Linux 6.7

During XDC 2023 this week in Spain, Faith Ekstrand with Collabora provided a status update on the NVK Vulkan driver that continues to be developed inside Mesa for providing open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver support…

Source: Phoronix – Even Though It’s Currently Slow, The Mesa NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan Driver Has Been Making Good Progress

In addition to AMD announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series / Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series, AMD also used today for announcing the Radeon RX 7900M for what they are calling their fastest Radeon laptop graphics ever developer…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Introduces Radeon RX 7900M Laptop Graphics

AMD today announced the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX Series as the company’s long-awaited Threadripper update that brings up to 96 Zen 4 cores, RDIMM memory is now required for Threadripper platforms moving forward, and catering to both HEDT enthusiasts and professionals. Here is an initial overview of the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series while the benchmark/review embargo isn’t being lifted until a later date.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Launches The Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series: Up To 96 Cores, DDR5 RDIMMs, PRO & HEDT CPUs

AdaptiveCpp 23.10 has been released for this open-source project formerly known as hipSYCL and OpenSYCL for aiming to provide an open-source project around SYCL and C++ standard parallelism that can target all major CPU and GPU platforms…

Source: Phoronix – AdaptiveCpp 23.10 Alpha Released For What Was hipSYCL / OpenSYCL

One month from today the GCC 14 feature development is expected to end as the GNU compiler developers transition to the bug-fixing stage…

Source: Phoronix – GCC 14 Feature Development Ends Next Month

In addition to Igalia working with Valve on AMD color management / HDR, Igalia engineers have also been working on the open-source Raspberry Pi kernel and Mesa drivers for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This work includes the timely enablement of the new Raspberry Pi 5 hardware support…

Source: Phoronix – Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers

Just as IBM was posting “future” processor compiler patches in 2019 for what ended up being early POWER10 enablement, they are once again repeating their same compiler enablement technique with sending out “PowerPC future” patches for what is likely to be POWER11…

Source: Phoronix – IBM Begins Posting “PowerPC Future” Compiler Patches For What Is Likely Going To Be POWER11

Friedrich Vock with Valve presented yesterday at XDC 2023 on the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver’s ray-tracing performance. Last year at XDC 2022 it was dubbed “the world’s slowest raytracer” but thanks to the work done by Valve and others, the RADV ray-tracing performance is now quite capable and also enabled by default since Mesa 23.2. The RADV ray-tracing performance also continues inching closer to the AMDVLK Vulkan performance for that official open-source AMD Vulkan driver…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa’s Radeon Vulkan Driver Has Become Much More Capable At Ray-Tracing, Thanks To Valve

Multi-grain(ed) timestamps had been submitted for Linux 6.6 to better deal with NFS where the once-per-jiffy coarse-grained timestamps aren’t enough for (in)validating caches. Multi-grained timestamps sought to address that by optionally allowing for the more fine-grained timestamps when desired but not using that finer granularity everywhere due to the greater overhead costs. This feature though ended up being reverted weeks later due to subtle bugs being uncovered. Now though a new redux patch series has been posted for providing another attempt at multi-grained timestamps…

Source: Phoronix – Multi-Grained Timestamps Revised Following Revert From Linux 6.6

Following other Intel oneAPI components like Embree and OpenVKL introducing GPU acceleration via SYCL, today Intel released the open-source OSPRay 3.0 that rolls out initial GPU support for this portable ray-tracing engine…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Releases OSPRay 3.0 With Initial GPU Acceleration

Merged last week to the X.Org Server is support in the 2D-acceleration-via-OpenGL GLAMOR code for allowing OpenGL ES 3.0 (GLES3) shaders…

Source: Phoronix – X.Org’s GLAMOR Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0 Shaders