The NVIDIA vendor extension of GL_NV_timeline_semaphore bringing Vulkan's timeline semaphores concept to the OpenGL API. This extension was written by NVIDIA engineers back in 2020.
With the now-pending merge request, Zink is able
Mesa's Zink Preps NV_timeline_semaphore For Better OpenGL-Vulkan Interoperability
The NVIDIA vendor extension of GL_NV_timeline_semaphore bringing Vulkan's timeline semaphores concept to the OpenGL API. This extension was written by NVIDIA engineers back in 2020.
With the now-pending merge request, Zink is able
Linux Patches Posted For Axiado AX3000 SoC Support
The Axiado AX3000 series is a Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) aimed to fend off cyberattacks by leveraging AI for preemptive threat detection and a range of other capabilities. The latest Linux patches were posted yesterday for enabling this SoC in the Linux kernel along with its evaluation/reference board.
AMD Preps Some Compute Driver Fixes For Polaris & Hawaii Era GPUs With Linux 6.17
Today's AMD kernel graphics driver pull request being primed for Linux 6.17 includes SR-IOV hibernation support for workstation/datacenter hardware (seemingly a lot of hibernation interest around Instinct servers recently), RAS updates, backlight improvements, suspend handling improvements, support for using scaling for non
Performance & Power Of The Low-Cost EPYC 4005 "Grado" vs. Original EPYC 7601 Zen 1 Flagship CPU
For those on very long server upgrade cycles, typically just running the hardware until failure or consider buying second-hand servers that are generations old for lower up-front cost, today's unique article is for you with quantifying a first-generation EPYC server compared to today's entry-level EPYC processors in performance and power efficiency. With the fascinating AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" budget-friendly server processors I was curious how well they would stack up against AMD's original flagship EPYC processor
Canonical Decides To Double Down On Their Investment In Java For Ubuntu
Canonical announced this morning their new builds of OpenJDK for Ubuntu Linux. The emphasis is on satisfying Ubuntu Pro paying customers but can help community users of Ubuntu Linux too.
Canonical is committing to supporting OpenJDK 8 on Ubuntu Pro until 2034 and at least 12 years of support for every other OpenJDK LTS release. They are also working to ensure timely access of new Java releases on Ubuntu releases, new performance optimizations
Gentoo Releases Updated Install Media Based On KDE Plasma 6.3 + Linux 6.12 LTS
Gentoo Linux released new LiveGUI USB images, new stage archives, and a QCOW2 disk image for virtual machines before ending out June. It's been a while since I last was running Gentoo so decided to take the new install images for a quick spin.
Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell
As previously covered on Phoronix, the Nouveau driver for Linux 6.16 adds Blackwell support in initial form. Since then the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver has been landing its Blackwell enablement bits . It looks like for the Mesa 25.2 release up next,
NVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta
Given the prior NVIDIA CUDA deprecation notices and their usual timing for phasing out older generations of GPUs, we've known these older NVIDIA GPU generations have been on their death-bed. Now it's official that NVIDIA
Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June
The Linux/open-source-related news and reviews/benchmarks continue to flow each and every day of the year at Phoronix. It's a product of passion around Linux hardware. Unfortunately though due to ad-blockers
digiKam 8.7 Released With AI Auto-Rotation Tool, OpenCV OpenCL + CUDA Support
Similar to prior digiKam releases working on new AI features , that AI work has continued with digiKam 8.7. New to digiKam 8.7 is having an AI auto-rotation tool to automate the orientation detection through content analysis using deep learning. This plug-in can then auto-rotate images when deemed necessary.