Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520
…Imagination's PowerVR DRM kernel driver and PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa has been seeing BXM-4-64 work for a while. Finally now the firmware for this GPU is upstream in…
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AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs
…before scaling, and additional pixel formats, and other low-level changes. With RDNA5 GPUs not expected to launch until 2027, we'll see what more open-source Linux graphics driver patches surface…
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"
…for games/engines and other applications making use of the extension. VKD3D-Proton is among the notable software since then making use of DGC. The AMD Radeon RADV driver saw its DGC…
AMD ROCm 7.14 Announced As New Production Release, Ryzen AI 400 Series Support
…With TheRock now serving as ROCm’s production build and release infrastructure, ROCm is now a modular software platform capable of delivering innovation more rapidly while improving software quality and simplifying deployment…
GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8
…and this problem for VA-API H.264 likely having existed all the way back to GNOME 44. The bug report noted that VA-API H.264 usage with the Mesa drivers…
NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code
…Still no sign of the Apple Silicon kernel graphics driver for mainline. The NVIDIA Nova driver continues seeing work upstreamed for enabling Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. Plus more common work around the…
AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI
AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA 'Generative AI Is Awesome' as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make…
DXVK 3.0.2 Released With Improved Hang Debugging, Handful Of Game Fixes
…Besides the few game fixes and improvements, DXVK 3.0.2 also presents an easier experience for helping to debug GPU hangs or driver crashes. The DXVK_DEBUG=hang environment variable is…
AMD Talks Up The Great Opportunities Of SPIR-V IR With ROCm
…SPIR-V is the intermediate representation typically associated with Vulkan API drivers but also supported by other Khronos APIs like OpenGL and OpenCL too. AMD ROCm has been working toward a model…
AMD ROCm 7.14 "TheRock" Tech Preview Tagged For Latest AMD GPU Compute Stack
…There have also been a variety of bug fixes and different enhancements targeting specific Radeon and Instinct hardware. Hopefully the official release notes / documentation make it out soon but for those eager…