Intel Compute Runtime Publishes Initial Panther Lake Xe3 GPU OpenCL/L0 Support

Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out initial "pre-release" support for next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs with integrated Xe3 graphics...
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Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15

Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes, but there are some minor feature changes particularly for the new RDNA4 GPUs...
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Steam Deck hits 18,000 games playable and verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

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Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 "Genio 350" Support In Linux 6.15

On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this next kernel version. With the Mediatek DRM driver for Linux 6.15 it's set to add MT8365 SoC support, perhaps better …
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GCC 15 Deprecates Support For The ESA/390 Architecture

In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...
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Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang

Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...
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NVIDIA RTX Remix released, plus Half-Life 2 RTX demo arrives March 18 - looking way too bright gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/nvid…

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Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler

Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...
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Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 14th edition for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ever…

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Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS

While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing...
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IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers

IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released on Thursday with new enhancements for these tests and other tools incorporated into the project...
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As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux / Steam Deck for Fortnite they're putting it on Windows Arm gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/as-e…

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IMDT V2N SBC: A Vision-AI Computing Platform with Dual MIPI CSI and Renesas RZ/V2N Processor lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 announced and in development gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/warh…

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