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Red Hat Engineer Nikita Popov Now The Lead Maintainer For LLVM
Following a proposal that began last month, Red Hat engineer Nikita Popov was nominated to become the new lead maintainer for LLVM. Following unaminous approval, as of last week in LLVM Git he's been appointed the official lead maintainer for this crit...
2024-10-17 10:27
Linux 6.13 To Introduce Intel 5th Gen NPU Support For Panther Lake
Earlier this month I wrote about Intel's Linux software engineers posting patches adding 5th Gen NPU support to the IVPU accelerator driver for that updated neural processing unit to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Those 5th Gen NPU dri...
2024-10-17 08:50
The Maturing State Of Rusticl For Rust-Based OpenCL Within Mesa
Karol Herbst of Red Hat presented in Montreal last week at the X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC 2024) on the current state of Rusticl as the Rust-written OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers within Mesa...
2024-10-17 06:58
AMD Working On GPU Compute Virtualization Support With ROCm/HIP For VMs
Last week at XDC 2024 in Montreal was a status update on AMD's GPU compute virtualization support around their open-source Linux GPU driver and ROCm compute stack...
2024-10-17 06:46
OGRE-Next 3.0 Released For This Open-Source 3D Engine
OGRE-Next 3.0 has debuted this week as the newest version of the Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine Next Generation for serving as an open-source 3D graphics rendering engine...
2024-10-17 06:30
Linux Foundation Newsletter: October 2024
The October LF newsletter is packed with updates about can’t-miss events, learning opportunities , research updates, and more! Take a look at the highlights, mark your calendars, and don’t forget to register for the upcoming events!
2024-10-16 17:00
AMD Releases AOMP 20.0-0 For Radeon/Instinct Compiler Offloading
Following last week's release of the LLVM/Clang-downstream AOCC 5.0 for optimized compiler support extended to Zen 5 CPUs, the GPU side of the house at AMD this week released AOMP 20.0-0 as their LLVM/Clang downstream focused on GPU device offloading...
2024-10-16 16:30
Qualcomm Announces Mesa VCL Driver For OpenCL Acceleration Within VMs
Qualcomm engineers have developed VCL as a new open-source OpenCL driver for use with VirtIO-GPU for providing OpenCL hardware acceleration within virtual machines...
2024-10-16 14:01
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows
Last week at the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2024) in Montreal there was a talk showcasing Mesa's open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver running atop Windows 11...
2024-10-16 13:11
Intel Lunar Lake vs. AMD Strix Point Platform Profile Performance Comparison
For those that have been eager to see more Intel Core Ultra Series 200V Lunar Lake Linux testing, here is the latest installment of testing as well as an update from Intel following my Lunar Lake Linux testing recent reports. Today's article is looking...
2024-10-16 11:30
GCC Preparing To Set C23 "GNU23" As Default C Language Version
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support for the C23 programming language standard is now considered "essentially feature-complete" with GCC 15. As such they are preparing to enable the C23 language version (using the GNU23 dialect) by default for the...
2024-10-16 10:15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2 Brings AMD ROCm + Instinct Tech Preview
Red Hat has announced the GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2. RHEL AI was announced earlier this year as Red Hat's AI solution for a foundation model platform to develop / test / run Granite GenAI models. Not to be confused with the RHEL ope...
2024-10-16 10:00
AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Switch To More Aggressive Power Heuristics By Default
It looks like for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle there could be a nice performance boost for AMD Radeon discrete graphics cards with the AMDGPU kernel driver poised to set more aggressive power heuristics by default...
2024-10-16 06:51
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.8 Brings New Features
The open-source Intel Low Power Mode Daemon (LPMD) software is out with a new release for optimizing active idle power on modern Intel Core systems under Linux. The Intel LPMD daemon is able to configure the system depending upon workload, utilization,...
2024-10-16 06:33
New Patches Allow For Deleting Files ~54% Faster On F2FS
A set of patches sent out today for testing allow for faster truncating on the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) that can yield around a 54% speed-up for deleting files...
2024-10-16 06:24
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds Valkey, Enables Other New Features
Microsoft has released Azure Linux 3.0.20241005 as the "October 2024" update to the company's in-house Linux distribution...
2024-10-16 06:04
Intel ISPC 1.25 Released With New Targets For Xe2 Lunar Lake & Battlemage
ISPC 1.25 has been released as the newest feature update to the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as the C language variant for "single program, multiple data" programming to target both Intel's CPUs and GPUs...
2024-10-16 05:57
Ubuntu 25.04 Codename Revealed as Development Begins
Ubuntu 24.10 may have only just been released, but development on the next version is getting underway and the codename for Ubuntu 25.04 revealed. Since codenames are alphabetical (as of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS; restarted at ‘A’ with 17.10) it means the Ub...
2024-10-15 23:00
Ubuntu 25.04 Codename is Revealed – And It’s Perfect
Ubuntu 24.10 may have only just been released, but development on the next version is getting underway and the codename for Ubuntu 25.04 revealed. Since codenames are alphabetical (as of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS; restarted at ‘A’ with 17.10) it means the Ub...
2024-10-15 23:00
Ubuntu 25.04 Codename is Revealed – And It’s Pretty Perfect
Ubuntu 24.10 may have only just been released, but development on the next version is getting underway and the codename for Ubuntu 25.04 revealed. Since codenames are alphabetical (as of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS; restarted at ‘A’ with 17.10) it means the Ub...
2024-10-15 23:00