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Valve's Radeon "ACO" Vulkan Compiler Back-End Now Supports Navi

Valve's Radeon "ACO" Vulkan Compiler Back-End Now Supports Navi Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 10 October 2019 at 06:48 AM EDT. 1 Comment The promising ACO compiler back-end for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver now has support for GFX10/Navi graphics! ACO was recently merged into Mesa 19.3 for this Valve-funded, gaming-focused Vulkan shader compiler back-end for RADV. But up until now it has only supported GFX8 and GFX9 hardware while now initial Navi/GFX10 support has been merged. ACO ultimately aims to deliver better performance over the existing back-end while also more quickly compiling shaders to help with game load times. Hitting the Mesa 19.3-devel Git tree this morning was the basic Navi support . However, there still are known bugs within the ACO GFX10 code, " Note that not everything works perfectly yet, so I haven't actually enabled ACO by default on Navi yet. " There still are several weeks left unt...

Plasma Mobile: weekly update: part 2

Plasma Mobile: weekly update: part 2 https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2019/10/11/Plasma-Mobile-Weekly-update-2.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Oct 11, 2019 • Plasma Mobile team Thanks to the awesome Plasma Mobile community, we are happy to present a second weekly update from Plasma Mobile project. Shell user interface Marco Martin made several changes in the shell to improve the overall user experience. The application grid was updated to show application names in single line and with a smaller font size. Marco Martin is also working on re-designing the top panel and top drawer, and bugfixes related to that. Below is screenshots of current state: Both the top and bottom panels were updated to use the normal color scheme instead of the inverted/dark color scheme. Marco martin also added several fixes 1 and 2 in KWin/wayland for fullscreen windows used by the top drawer and the window switcher. Kirigami Nicolas Fella...

Plasma Mobile: weekly update: part 4

Plasma Mobile: weekly update: part 4 The Plasma Mobile team is happy to present the fourth weekly blogpost. This week’s update features various shell user-interface improvements, bug fixes as well as polishing of various applications. Shell User Interface Plasma Mobile now uses the same notification code that is used on the desktop, which has received some slight adjustments when running on a phone (Marco Martin). The dialer now uses the SearchField component from Kirigami, giving it the same look and feel as in similar places (Jonah Brüchert). The icons in the top drawer are consistently monochrome now (Nicolas Fella). When plugging in a SIM card the SIM pin page now appears correctly again (Bhushan Shah). Settings Application: The WiFi settings have received an overhaul. Distinguishing the active connection is now easier due to connections being grouped by their state. Furthermore, it’s now possible to forget a connection that has been used before (Nicolas Fel...

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