… The headline change with this latest Intel Xe kernel driver pull request is support for purgeable buffer objects BOs . This new user-space API provides a way for user-space to provide memory usage hints for enhancing the memory management behavior under memory pressure. …
… 23 Comments The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone TMZ support on newer GPUs. Vulkan memory allocations support the notion of protected memory and unprotected memory. …
… For this AMD Ryzen AI NPU accelerator driver, there is now a user-space API for supporting per-process memory usage querying for any user-space software wanting to report on memory usage statistics for the Ryzen AI NPU hardware. …
… The Intel driver code in Mesa 26.2 for the Iris Gallium3D driver and ANV Vulkan driver now support the madvise purgeable VMAs in the Xe kernel driver. This allows the kernel driver to remove the backing storage of VMAs not needed when under memory pressure. …
… 4 Comments The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem updates have been merged for Linux 7.1 that deal with reporting of ECC memory errors and the like from various hardware drivers. …
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… The AMDKFD driver also has GC/GFX 12.1 IP updates. - The Intel Xe driver has initial Xe3P LPG and Nova Lake P enablement support . - The Intel Xe driver is improving memory pressure and out-of-memory behavior for vRAM. - The Nouveau driver has initial support for the NVIDIA GA100 accelerator. - The… …
… New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDMI 2.1 FRL Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026 HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU…
… New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDMI 2.1 FRL Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026 HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU…
… Some of these fixes for DRM-Next are what was already submitted as fixes for the current Linux 7.1 cycle with regard to the various AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 fixes, including for "harvested" GPUs and other configurations that had been problematic or regressed in their transition from using the legacy Radeon … …