Mesa 20.1-RC3 Released With Another Week Worth Of Fixes Plus Intel Rocket Lake Support
While already various changes are building up for Mesa 20.2, the Mesa 20.1 release process is still progressing with hopes of shipping this quarter's stable release later in the month...
Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 Released With The Switch Finally To Unity 8 / Lomiri
A year after the transition started to import Unity 8 into Ubuntu Touch, the work is now ready for users with the newly released Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 by the UBports crew...
Mesa 20.2 Picks Up A New Disk Cache: TGSI-To-NIR Caching
Mesa 20.2-devel has a new cache in place for TTN...
A Quick Run With The FSGSBASE Patches On Intel + AMD
FSGSBASE patches for the Linux kernel have been available for years albeit not mainlined to date. However, thankfully, a Microsoft Linux developer has taken up the cause to get them upstreamed given the performance benefits they are even seeing. Here are some benchmarks of the Linux kernel patches for FSGSBASE on both Intel and AMD CPUs.
Epic Games Preparing Unreal Engine 5 For Debut In 2021 With Increased Photo-Realism
Epic Games today offered the first glimpse at Unreal Engine 5, their next-generation game engine they hope to have out in preview form in early 2021 and for its official release before the end of next year...
Radeon Rays 4.0 Released - Adds Vulkan While Dropping OpenCL, No Longer Open-Source
Continuing with AMD's relaunch of GPUOpen and introducing new software releases all week, out this morning is Radeon Rays 4.0. It takes another step forward while taking a step back in terms of no longer being open-source...
AMD Announces The Radeon Pro VII
AMD announced today the Radeon Pro VII workstation graphics card for $1899 USD and will begin shipping in June...
Upstream Linux Developers Against "-O3" Optimizing The Kernel
The upstream Linux kernel developers have come out against a proposal to begin using the "-O3" optimization level when compiling the open-source code-base with the GCC 10 compiler or newer...
BFloat16 Support About To Land Within LLVM
The LLVM compiler stack is about to merge its support for the BFloat16 floating-point format, including the BF16 C language support...
Linux 5.8 Bringing Soft Recovery Support For GFX10/Navi
A lot is building up for Linux 5.8 and there already being a few rounds of AMDGPU feature improvements. Another batch of feature material for the AMD Radeon graphics driver was sent in this week to DRM-Next destined for Linux 5.8...