Graphics: Mesa/LLVMpipe, DragonFlyBSD and NVIDIA

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Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU
Mesa's LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver has long been about running OpenGL on GPUs as a software fallback / debug path but as of this morning in Mesa 20.0-devel there is now the experimental ability of having OpenCL support making use of OpenCL "Clover" with NIR for CPU-based execution.
LLVMpipe recently introduced the ability to use the NIR intermediate representation over TGSI. Following that NIR transition, it ended up being quite easy to get OpenCL support going making use of the "Clover" Gallium3D state tracker for OpenCL. Clover recently picked up NIR support thanks to the work by Red Hat on the Nouveau side and their open-source NVIDIA compute efforts.
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DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel Graphics Driver From Linux 4.8.17
The Linux 4.8 series is over three years old while now the DragonFlyBSD crew has pulled in the Linux 4.8.17 sources of the Intel "i915" DRM driver into their kernel for providing updated graphics driver coverage.
For roughly two years the DragonFlyBSD kernel has been making use of modified Linux 4.7~4.8 kernel code for their Intel Direct Rendering Manager driver adaptation. With this update against the newer point release code, DragonFlyBSD desktop users with Intel graphics should be seeing better support.
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If you have an old NVIDIA 8 or 9 series GPU, there's a new Linux driver update out for you
While naturally a lot of the focus for a GPU vendor is on their latest and greatest, NVIDIA do still support many of their older GPUs on Linux.
This month they put out the 340.108 driver, which supports some of their classics like the GeForce 9800 and GeForce 8800 GTX plus many older.
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