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Rust-Written OpenCL Driver Now Works On Raspberry Pi GPUs

([Mesa] 3 Hours Ago Rusticl + V3D)


Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver for GPUs backed by Gallium3D support now works with the Broadcom V3D driver. This V3D support is notable as it's most commonly associated with the Raspberry Pi single board computers.

With the newest Mesa 24.2 development code today, Rusticl is enabled for the Broadcom V3D driver meaning it's possible to now run OpenCL workloads on the Raspberry Pi's GPU using this open-source code.

Karol Herbst of Red Hat has been working on the V3D Rusticl support for the past half-year and most OpenCL CTS test cases are passing. There are some known 16-bit issues though and various other minor features not behaving as expected right now.

In any event [1]this merge today is quite an achievement for Rusticl and Raspberry Pi owners. Rusticl works as well with Mesa's Asahi AGX, Intel Iris, Nouveau, R600, Panfrost, RadeonSI, Swrast, and Zink drivers. This new V3D Rusticl support will be found in Mesa 24.2 due out as stable in August.



[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/25362


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Clippit Charged With Attempted Murder

Microsoft's Dancing Paper Clip turned violent last week and nearly killed
a university student testing a new Windows-based human-computer interface.
The victim is expected to make a full recovery, although psychiatrists
warn that the incident may scar him emotionally for life. "You can bet
this kid won't be using Windows or Office ever again," said one shrink.

The victim had been alpha-testing CHUG (Computer-Human Unencumbered
Groupware), a new interface in which the user controls the computer with
force-feedback gloves and voice activation.

"I was trying to write a term paper in Word," he said from his hospital
bed. "But then that damned Dancing Paper Clip came up and started annoying
me. I gave it the middle finger. It reacted by deleting my document, at
which point I screamed at it and threatened to pull the power cord. I
didn't get a chance; the force-feedback gloves started choking me."

"We told Clippit it had the right to remain silent, and so on," said a
campus police officer. "The paperclip responded, 'Hi, I'm Clippit, the
Office Assistant. Would you like to create a letter?' I said, 'Look here,
Mr. Paperclip. You're being charged with attempted murder.' At that point
the computer bluescreened."