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      Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20:00

    After the merge request was open the past three months for code originally authored eight months ago, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is now advertising support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. But for the moment at least it's treated as experimental...
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      Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:28

    The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 3.1 as the first major spec update in six years and incorporating various features into the core spec for enhancing AI and HPC capabilities. As a very exciting development, Rusticl as Mesa's lead OpenCL driver implementation is ready to go with same-day OpenCL 3.1 support pending...
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      Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:42

    The Linux 7.1 development kernel that amounts to nearly 40 million lines has a lot of new features and changes in tow. While Linux 7.1 stable won't be out until mid-June, here is a look at the interesting changes coming with this next stable version of the Linux kernel.
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      Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:57

    Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with Linux 7.1 is an addition to improve the video RAM memory pressure or out-of-memory behavior for Intel graphics with dedicated video memory. Introduced is support for purgeable buffer objects via a new user-space API to provide usage hints for enhancing what is purged under vRAM pressure. Merged this week to Mesa 26.2-devel is support for the Intel Mesa drivers to make use of this new interface...
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      Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:17

    The preview release of the Arch Linux powered Manjaro 26.1 is now available for testing...
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      AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:36

    An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new "HighestFreq" register to be standardized by a future revision of the ACPI specification...
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      OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:22

    Six years after the debut of OpenCL 3.0 in provisional form, OpenCL 3.1 was announced today by The Khronos Group...
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      Qt's Latest AI Push Is Letting AI Agents Deal With Performance Profiling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:08

    The Qt Group announced today the QML Profiler Skill for Agentic Development. This new "skill" can delegate code performance profiling to AI agents for 2D Qt Quick applications...
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      AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta Released With Legacy 32-bit Software Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:24

    AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta released today as their next AlmaLinux 10 release coming down the pipe and derived from the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 state. Plus this AlmaLinux release continues adding more changes on their own...