Graphics: AMD's Work on Linux and Collabora Works/Defects to Microsoft for Money

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AMD Radeon "Aldebaran" Support Merged Into Mesa 21.1 - Phoronix
The AMD Radeon "Aldebaran" successor to Arcturus has now landed the initial user-space code into Mesa 21.1.
Last month AMD's open-source graphics driver engineers began posting "Aldebaran" Linux kernel patches for this next-gen CDNA graphics card / accelerator. This came shortly after a new GFX90A target was added to LLVM in continuing the GFX9 (Vega) / CDNA family. That shader compiler back-end support indicated support for full-rate FP64 and other new capabilities.
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AMD Clarifies ROCm Compute Support For GUI Applications - Phoronix
AMD recently added a notice to the ROCm repository reinforcing their focus on headless, non-GUI workloads while now that statement is being sort of retracted and they have clarified their support intentions around this open-source Radeon Open eCosystem driver stack.
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OpenGL on DirectX: Conformance & upstreaming of the D3D12 driver [Ed: Collabora selling us out for Microsoft bribes. This is how companies fall.]
Over the last year and then so, Collabora has been working with Microsoft on their D3D12 mapping layer, which I announced in my previous blog post. Last July, Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne wrote a status update, but a lot has happened since then, so it's time for another update.
We’re excited to share that the we have recently passed the OpenGL 3.3 conformance tests, and have upstreamed the code in Mesa 3D!
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