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Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance
Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator 'accel' drivers within the kernel
Intel NPU accelerator driver changes stand out for this week's pull request ahead of Linux 6.17. Today's drm-misc-next pull of new material slated for Linux 6.17 includes some DRM core fixes, adding task information to the DRM wedge API, improved MIPI-DSI support for the Renesas RZ-DU driver, fence improvements for the VMware VMWGFX driver, and other changes. The other notable new Intel NPU driver addition for Linux 6.17 is adding a new "turbo" flag for submissions to the neural processing unit.
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