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Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default

([Mesa] 5 Hours Ago Rusticl OpenCL On Apple Silicon)


Building off the recent infrastructure merged for Mesa 24.3 as [1]a build option to allow Rusticl driver support to be enabled by default , Red Hat's Karol Herbst has added the Asahi Gallium3D driver to the default list.

With the latest Mesa Git code, the Asahi Gallium3D driver is the first to be added to the "gallium-rusticl-enable-drivers" Meson build option for allowing this OpenCL driver support to be enabled by default when running on supported Apple Silicon hardware.

The Asahi driver is now the second after Intel's Iris Gallium3D on Gen12 graphics hardware to achieve OpenCL 3.0 conformance with Rusticl. [2]This Khronos conformance submission has OpenCL 3.0 support with Mesa 24.3 across Apple M1 and Apple M2 hardware. Though besides Mesa Git, you'll also need to be using the out-of-tree AGX DRM kernel driver for this Apple Silicon open-source graphics support.

[3]This merge that landed this week in Mesa 24.3-devel is what adds the OpenCL 3.0 conformance bits and adding Asahi to the Rusticl driver default list. Mesa 24.3 stable should be out by late November as the next quarterly feature release to these open-source user-space GPU drivers.

In case you missed it from this week, [4]the latest Asahi Linux is now in good shape for gaming too with adding FEX + Steam support and other bits to their Fedora-derived distribution.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-Default-Mesa-24.3

[2] https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products/opencl#submission_433

[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/31589

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Silicon-Linux-Gaming



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Treaty of Helsinki Signed

HELSINKI, FINLAND -- A cease-fire in the flame war between Linux and
FreeBSD has been reached. A group of two dozen Linux and FreeBSD zealots
met in Helsinki to ratify a treaty bringing a temporary end to the hostile
fighting between both camps. "Today is a good day for peace," one observer
noted. "Now both sides can lay down their keyboards and quit flaming the
opposing side on Usenet and Slashdot."

The cease-fire is a response to the sudden increase in fighting that has
occured over the past two weeks. The Slashdot server became a victim of
the cross-fire this week when thousands of Anonymous Cowards and Geek
Zealots posted inflammatory comments that amounted to, "My OS is better
than your OS!" Many nerds, suffering withdrawl symptoms when the Slashdot
site slowed to a crawl, demanded that the bickering stop.

"I can't take it anymore! It takes two minutes to download the Slashdot
homepage -- assuming the site is actually online. I must have my 'News for
Nerds' now! The fighting must stop," one Anonymous Coward ranted.