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AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 October, 2024

The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL 3.0 support for years, and even with Mesa's Rusticl open-source OpenCL implementation it's beginning to see Gallium3D drivers with conformant OpenCL 3.0. Yet if installing the AMD ROCm compute stack right now, you'll see OpenCL 2.1. But it looks like OpenCL 3.0 will soon be here for ROCm...

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Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 October, 2024

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has announced the availability of an Intel NPU driver Snap package within their Snap Store to make it easier to leverage the Intel neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra processors within Ubuntu Linux...

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Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 October, 2024

Merged to upstream SDL today is an OpenVR video driver that was developed at Valve Software...

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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 October, 2024

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies...

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NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 October, 2024

In addition to NVIDIA engineers being at XDC 2024 in Montreal last week for talking about their Wayland driver plans, there was also a presentation by NVIDIA's Daniel Dadap around current Linux challenges in supporting dynamic display mux hardware on modern laptops with iGPU/dGPU combinations and their hopes for improving the support...

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AMD EPYC 9755 DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Memory Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 October, 2024

With the newly-launched AMD EPYC 9005 series processors continuing to use Socket SP5, there is drop-in upgrade compatibility for existing EPYC 9004 series motherboards/servers. That's assuming, of course, the vendor provides a BIOS update for enabling the EPYC 9005 series "Turin" support and there may be limitations on the maximum CPU/TDP supported given power/thermal constraints. But in going from EPYC 9004 to EPYC 9005 is also upping the maximum memory speed from DDR5-4800 to DDR5-6000 (or DDR5-6400 in validated configurations). For those trying to weigh the benefits of also upgrading your memory if on an existing EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo server to DDR5-6000, here are some memory performance comparison benchmarks for some reference points.

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GCC 15 "Stage 1" Feature Development Ending Next Month

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 October, 2024

Richard Biener of SUSE published a GCC 15.0.0 status report for outlining the current development state of the GCC 15 open-source compiler as it works its way toward the stable GCC 15.1 release in the early months of 2025...

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CodeWeavers Working On Better Input Device Support For Proton Gaming

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 October, 2024

The Wine developers at CodeWeavers who also collaborate with Valve on Steam Play's Proton have been working to enhance input device support for Proton/Wine gaming. In particular, for various gaming input devices that were never designed with Linux support in mind and various nuances around properly supporting them under Linux with different limitations from (X)Wayland to kernel driver handling...

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Corsair Void Headset Driver Expected For Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 October, 2024

For those that happen to have a Corsair Void headset or are looking for a new gaming headset this upcoming holiday season, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is expected to merge a new driver for these wired and wireless PC gaming headsets...