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Graphics: Mesa, AMDVLK, Adreno and Protected Xe Path

By Roy Schestowitz Created 08/02/2021 - 11:48pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 8th of February 2021 11:48:11 PM Filed under Graphics/Benchmarks [1]

Panfrost Gallium3D Lands Its New Bifrost Scheduler In Mesa 21.1 - Phoronix[2]

Hitting Mesa 21.1 this morning is a scheduler implementation for Panfrost Gallium3D, the open-source Arm Mali graphics driver.

Lead Panfrost developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has been working to implement a scheduler in panfrost for the Arm Bifrost graphics code path. The scheduler has been in the works for a number of months and is passing the relevant conformance tests and has now been merged.

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.3 Brings Performance Tuning For War Thunder - Phoronix[3]

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.3 is out this morning as the latest snapshot of the official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for systems that is derived from their shared platform driver sources.

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.3 is on the lighter side with AMDVLK 2021.Q1.2 having arrived just over one week ago.

Of the two listed driver changes, AMDVLK 2021.Q1.3 is rebuilt against the Vulkan API 1.2.168 headers.

Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver Adds More Adreno Support, Speedbin Capability For Linux 5.12 - Phoronix[4] The MSM driver originally developed as part of the Freedreno effort for open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics on Linux while now supported by the likes of Google and Qualcomm's Code Aurora engineers has some notable changes in store for the next cycle.

New Adreno hardware support coming with Linux 5.12 is the A508, A509, and A512. The Adreno 508 is part of the Snapdragon 630 SoC, the mid-range Adreno 509 is found with the Snapdragon 636, and the Adreno 512 is what was found in the Snapdragon 660.

Intel "Protected Xe Path" Code Updated For Hardware-Protected GPU Sessions - Phoronix[5]

Intel PXP -- Protected Xe Path -- is a means of hardware-protected sessions for graphics clients on Gen12 / Xe Graphics. The support code for enabling PXP with their open-source Linux driver stack was updated this past week.

While it's still under a "request for comments" flag and too late for possibly seeing it come with the soon-to-open Linux 5.12 merge window, this Intel PXP functionality is moving along and will be important for Xe server GPUs in public cloud type deployments where protected sessions are desirable for better segregation between shared resources.

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Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/148 [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Panfrost-Bifrost-New-Scheduler [3] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDVLK-2021.Q1.3-Released [4] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MSM-DRM-For-Linux-5.12 [5] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-PXP-Updated