Airlie Articles & Reviews |
| Radeon Vulkan Driver Added To Mesa, Fresh Radeon Vulkan vs. OpenGL Benchmarks + AMDGPU-PRO | Display Drivers | 2016-10-06 |
| Open-Source ATI Driver Achieves 3D Success | Display Drivers | 2008-05-27 |
| Nouveau Companion 37 | Display Drivers | 2008-03-20 |
| ATI HD 2900XT With Radeon Driver | Display Drivers | 2007-11-20 |
| Open-Source Developers Talk About AMD | Display Drivers | 2007-09-15 |
Airlie Linux & Open-Source News |
| Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue | Linux Kernel | 2026-06-05 |
| HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs | Nouveau | 2026-04-23 |
| Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-11 |
| Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance | Nouveau | 2026-02-05 |
| Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing | Intel | 2026-02-04 |
| Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug | Nouveau | 2026-01-28 |
| Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-09 |
| Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 | NVIDIA | 2025-12-26 |
| Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged | Intel | 2025-12-05 |
| Intel Gaudi 3 Driver Support Already Rejected For Linux 6.19 | Intel | 2025-12-01 |
| AMDGPU Driver Lacks HDMI 2.1 While AMD-Xilinx Driver Has Some HDMI 2.1 Support | Radeon | 2025-11-25 |
| NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver | NVIDIA | 2025-09-29 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable | Nouveau | 2025-09-01 |
| Pinned Device Memory Patches For Intel's Multi-GPU "Project Battlematrix" Linux Efforts | Intel | 2025-08-19 |
| Vulkan + Mesa Drivers For AI Inferencing? It's Already Showing Potential On Radeon RADV | Mesa | 2025-07-24 |
| 12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced | NVIDIA | 2025-07-16 |
| Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell | Mesa | 2025-07-01 |
| NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa | Nouveau | 2025-06-27 |
| Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode | Radeon | 2025-06-26 |
| RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Merges Support For VP9 Video Decoding | Vulkan | 2025-06-10 |
| AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates | Linux Kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video | Mesa | 2024-10-04 |
| UXL Foundation Hosting Virtual oneAPI DevSummit 2024 Next Week | Linux Events | 2024-10-03 |
| Rust Linux Developers Compared To Road Builders & Mapmakers | Linux Kernel | 2024-08-30 |
| RADV Enables Vulkan Video By Default For RDNA3 / VCN4 GPUs | Radeon | 2024-08-27 |
| Intel Xe2/Battlemage & AMD RDNA4 Lead The Graphics Driver Changes In Linux 6.11 | Hardware | 2024-07-23 |
| Vulkan Sparse Binding Support Comes To Lavapipe Software Driver | Mesa | 2024-06-28 |
| Linus Torvalds On Dogfooding The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2024-05-16 |
| Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode | Radeon | 2024-04-11 |
| Nouveau GSP Fix On The Way For Regression That Broke Ampere GPU Support | Nouveau | 2024-04-09 |
| Linux 6.9 Graphics Drivers Prepare For RDNA3 Refresh & RDNA4, More Intel Xe Driver Work | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1 | Mesa | 2024-02-27 |
| Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8 | Linux Kernel | 2024-02-23 |
| New Nouveau Patch Would Allow Optionally Enabling GSP Mode By Default | Nouveau | 2024-02-14 |
| Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 | Mesa | 2024-02-02 |
| Nouveau Receives Last Minute GSP Fixes For Linux 6.7 | Nouveau | 2024-01-05 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Encoding Still Being Worked On | Mesa | 2023-12-18 |
| Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7 | Nouveau | 2023-11-05 |
| Linux 6.7 GPU Drivers: Intel Meteor Lake Stable & AMD Works On Upcoming Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-31 |
| DRM CI Merged Into Linux 6.6 - Linus Torvalds: "Let's See Where It Goes" | Linux Kernel | 2023-09-10 |
| David Airlie Shares His Thoughts On Current Challenges With Linux GPU Compute Stacks | Intel | 2023-09-02 |
| Linux 6.6 Graphics Drivers: NVK uAPI, New AMD GPUs, More Meteor Lake, CI Support | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-31 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3 | Mesa | 2023-08-04 |
| Rusticl Capable Of Running Tinygrad For LLaMA Model | AI | 2023-07-14 |
| Many Intel & AMD Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.5: Intel VRR, More MTL, RDNA3 Overclocking | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-29 |
| Linux 6.3.9 Released With Fix For Nasty Nouveau Issue | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-21 |
| Linux 6.4 Lands Fix For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Use-After-Free Issue | Nouveau | 2023-06-17 |
| The Nasty Linux 6.3 Nouveau Driver Bug Appears To Have Been Figured Out | Nouveau | 2023-06-16 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Gets More Robust H.265 Decoding | Radeon | 2023-06-08 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Adds Vulkan Task/Mesh Shader Support | Mesa | 2023-06-06 |
| FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters | Multimedia | 2023-05-31 |
| Linux 6.4 Kernel Graphics Drivers Include More Meteor Lake Code, Rockchip 4K, QAIC | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-24 |
| Nouveau Using The NVIDIA GSP Will Lead To More Firmware Bloat | Nouveau | 2023-04-19 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Begins Running Game While Using GSP Firmware | Nouveau | 2023-03-21 |
| Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Decoding For VP9 | Mesa | 2023-03-13 |
| Initial Intel Vulkan Video Support Lands In Mesa 23.1 | Intel | 2023-02-08 |
| Mesa 23.1 RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video Decoding For H.264/H.265 | Radeon | 2023-02-07 |
| Nouveau Kernel Driver Patches Begin Preparing For "NVK" Open-Source Vulkan Support | Nouveau | 2023-01-18 |
| VK_MESA_video_decode_av1: Early Vulkan AV1 Decoding For Open-Source Radeon Driver | Mesa | 2023-01-17 |
| VKD3D-Proton's Hans-Kristian Arntzen Experimenting With Vulkan Video | Vulkan | 2023-01-07 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Making Progress On H.264 Encoding | Radeon | 2022-12-29 |
| Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Sees New Work On Vulkan Video Extensions | Intel | 2022-12-17 |
| Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Gets H.264 & H.265 Decode Working | Mesa | 2022-12-15 |
| Nouveau Linux DRM Driver Making Progress On NVIDIA GSP Support | Nouveau | 2022-10-26 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan "NVK" Driver Continues Progressing | NVIDIA | 2022-10-04 |
| Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264 / H.265 / VC1 VA-API Support Over Legal Concerns | Fedora | 2022-09-28 |
| Renewed Talk Of User-Space Consoles, Accelerators In The DRM Subsystem | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-16 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Outlook Brighter Due To GSP Firmware, But Major Challenges Remain | Nouveau | 2022-09-13 |
| There Is Another Debate Over An AI Accelerator Subsystem For Linux | AI | 2022-08-04 |
| Linux 6.0 Graphics Driver Changes Preparing For Intel DG2/Alchemist & AMD RDNA3 | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-03 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Refactors Some Display Code For Linux 5.20 | Nouveau | 2022-07-27 |
| Intel GuC Firmware Fix Submitted For Linux 5.19 | Intel | 2022-07-23 |
| Lavapipe Vulkan Software Implementation Now Compliant With Vulkan 1.3 | Mesa | 2022-07-20 |
| Linux Laying Out Guidelines To Avoid Kernel Updates Breaking Firmware Compatibility | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-18 |
| AMDGPU Driver Reverting The Buddy Allocator For Linux 5.19 | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-15 |
| Oh GuC: Intel ADL-P Graphics On Linux 5.19 Will Break Unless You Also Upgrade Firmware | Intel | 2022-07-14 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Few Changes For Linux 5.20 | Nouveau | 2022-07-13 |
| New Activity Around Adapting ACO Compiler Back-End For RadeonSI | Radeon | 2022-07-01 |
| Red Hat Experimenting With "NVK" Nouveau Open-Source Vulkan Driver | Nouveau | 2022-06-02 |
| Nouveau Begins Shifting Around Code For Use By New Driver - Vulkan And/Or New Driver | Nouveau | 2022-05-31 |
| Intel Media Driver Adding Vulkan Video Acceleration Support | Intel | 2022-05-29 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Now Officially Vulkan 1.2 Conformant | Vulkan | 2022-05-27 |
| Nearly Half A Million Lines Of New Graphics Driver Code Sent In For Linux 5.19 | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-25 |
| Mesa Can Now Be Built With Select Video Codecs Disabled For Software Patent Concerns | Mesa | 2022-04-29 |
| Linux 5.18 Graphics Driver Changes From FreeSync Video Mode To New Intel Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-24 |
| VA-API Library 2.14 Released With AV1 Encode Interface | Multimedia | 2022-02-22 |
| LLVMpipe/Lavapipe Patches Land To Allow For Greater CPU Saturation | Mesa | 2022-02-21 |
| LLVMpipe Patches Pending For Faster Vertex/Fragment Processing | Mesa | 2022-02-18 |
| Linux 5.17 GPU Updates: Raptor Lake, ADL-P Stable, Raspberry Pi 4K@60, AMD Seamless Boot | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-07 |
| Airlie Exploring Possibility Of VA-API On Top Of Vulkan Video | Vulkan | 2021-11-24 |
| Vulkan Video Support Progressing For Open-Source Intel, AMD Radeon Hardware | Vulkan | 2021-11-15 |
| David Airlie Hacking On Intel Vulkan Video Decode, Crocus Gallium3D VA-API | Intel | 2021-11-12 |
| RADV Seeing Early Experimenting With Vulkan Video Capabilities | Radeon | 2021-11-05 |
| Mesa 22.0 Lands Some Patches Toward OpenCL Image Support | Mesa | 2021-10-18 |
| Red Hat Is Hiring Another Linux Developer To Work On GPU Hardware Enablement | Red Hat | 2021-10-12 |
| Lavapipe Mesa Software Driver Enables Vulkan 1.2 Support | Mesa | 2021-09-27 |
| Linux 5.15 Graphics Driver Changes Bring Intel DG2/Alchemist, XeHP, AMD Cyan Skillfish | Linux Kernel | 2021-08-31 |
| Habana Labs' Linux AI Driver Causes More Concerns - Changes Dropped Ahead Of Linux 5.15 | Hardware | 2021-08-23 |
| Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support | Mesa | 2021-08-17 |
| LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported | Mesa | 2021-07-21 |
| Older Intel Graphics With Crocus Enjoy EXT_gpu_shader4, GLAMOR 2D Improvements | Intel | 2021-07-13 |
| Intel's Mesa Drivers Using The IGC Compiler Delayed | Intel | 2021-07-07 |
| Intel Gallium3D Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.2 For Gen4 Through Haswell Graphics | Intel | 2021-06-13 |
| Crocus Gallium3D Nears Mainline Mesa For Gallium3D i965 Through Haswell Graphics | Intel | 2021-06-05 |
| David Airlie Tries DOOM On CPU-Based Lavapipe Vulkan | Mesa | 2021-04-19 |
| Mesa 21.1's Lavapipe Now Teases Vulkan 1.1 On CPUs | Mesa | 2021-04-07 |
| Mesa 21.0.2 Released With Lavapipe Fixes, Improved AMD L3 Cache Calculation | Mesa | 2021-04-07 |
| The Current State Of The Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Driver | Intel | 2021-04-05 |
| Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Performance Looking Good Compared To SwiftShader | Mesa | 2021-03-26 |
| Crocus: Working On Gallium3D For Old Intel Graphics | Intel | 2021-03-24 |
| Lavapipe Continues Advancing CPU-Based Vulkan - Now Supports Transform Feedback | Mesa | 2020-12-21 |
| Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 5.11 Have Lots Of Intel + AMD Presents | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-13 |
| AMD's Zen 3 + RDNA2 Products Dominated November Along With The Apple M1 | Phoronix | 2020-12-01 |
| More OpenCL 3.0 Bits Merged For Mesa 20.1 | Mesa | 2020-11-16 |
| TTM Multihop + Intel Keem Bay Display Support Queued For Linux 5.11 | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-12 |
| Airlie: "Why Sharing Code With Windows Isn't Always A Win" | Mesa | 2020-11-11 |
| TTM Multihop Code Revised For Improving Linux GPU Buffer Management | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-09 |
| Mesa Moves Closer To Having OpenCL 3.0 Support In Clover Gallium3D | Mesa | 2020-11-06 |
| LLVMpipe Is Now Officially Conformant With OpenGL 4.5 | Mesa | 2020-10-30 |
| Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows | Mesa | 2020-10-19 |
| OpenCL 1.2 Support Merged For Mesa's Gallium3D Clover While OpenCL 3.0 Is Being Tackled | Mesa | 2020-10-08 |
| Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe | Vulkan | 2020-10-01 |
| Mesa 20.3 Can Now Consume SPIR-V Binaries Generated By LLVM's libclc | Microsoft | 2020-09-26 |
| Why VALLIUM Is Just For Software-Based Vulkan & Not GPU Hardware Drivers | Vulkan | 2020-08-20 |
| OpenGL 4.5 Now Enabled For LLVMpipe With Mesa 20.3, To Be Back-Ported For 20.2 | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| VALLIUM Merged Into Mesa 20.3 As Vulkan Front-End To Gallium3D | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| LLVMpipe Has Patches Bringing It To OpenGL 4.5 Support | Mesa | 2020-08-17 |
| Open-Source GPU Driver Updates Sent In For Linux 5.9 From Sienna Cichlid To Rocket Lake | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-06 |
| Intel Workaround For Graphics Driver Regression: "The Platform Problem Going Crazy" | Intel | 2020-08-05 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3 | Mesa | 2020-07-22 |
| Mesa 20.1.3 Brings More Fixes To The Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers | Mesa | 2020-07-09 |
| LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs | Mesa | 2020-07-06 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0 | Mesa | 2020-07-02 |
| LLVMpipe Gains Support For On-Disk Shader Cache | Mesa | 2020-06-10 |
| Mainlining The Microsoft DirectX Kernel Driver For Linux Will Be An Uphill Battle | Microsoft | 2020-05-20 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support | Mesa | 2020-05-06 |
| Mesa "Vallium" - Software/CPU-Based Vulkan Based On LLVMpipe | Vulkan | 2020-04-24 |
| X.Org Saw A Lot Of Work In The 2010s Even With Wayland Taking Off | X.Org | 2019-12-28 |
| Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU | Mesa | 2019-12-27 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Driver Now Uses NIR By Default | Mesa | 2019-12-21 |
| Linux Graphics Drivers Could Have User-Space API Changes More Strictly Evaluated | Linux Kernel | 2019-10-15 |
| Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support | Mesa | 2019-09-04 |
| Mesa 19.3's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For Shader Image Extensions | Mesa | 2019-08-27 |
| X.Org Server Gains Support For Auto-Binding Secondary GPUs To The Screen | X.Org | 2019-08-10 |
| The Massive DRM Pull Request With AMDGPU Navi Support Sent In For Linux 5.3 | Linux Kernel | 2019-07-15 |
| LLVMpipe Software OpenGL Implementation Picks Up More GL4 Extensions | Mesa | 2019-07-08 |
| AMD Navi Support Makes It Into DRM-Next For Linux 5.3, AMDGPU Hits Two Million Lines | Radeon | 2019-06-27 |
| Red Hat Is Looking To Hire Another Experienced Open-Source Graphics Driver Developer | Red Hat | 2019-05-14 |
| Linux 5.1 Encounters "Regression Special" For Intel & VirtIO DRM Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2019-04-24 |
| AMDGPU FreeSync Has A Last Minute Fix To Help Prevent Stuttering For Linux 5.0 | Radeon | 2019-02-27 |
