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Tow-Boot Downstream Of U-Boot Updated After Long Hiatus

Thu, 07/06/2023 - 17:49
Tow-Boot has been a "user-friendly" distribution of U-Boot that was seeing regular updates but for nearly one year has been on hiatus without any new releases. That changed overnight with Tow-Boot 2022.07-006 being released and a call for new developers...

Wine Begins Preparations For Reorganizing & Cleaning Up Its Direct3D Code

Thu, 07/06/2023 - 07:50
CodeWeavers developer Zebediah Figura opened up the initial merge request yesterday that is the first step of a multi-part effort for reorganizing and cleaning up the Wine Direct3D "WineD3D" code...

F2FS Prepares Some Minor Improvements For Linux 6.5

Thu, 07/06/2023 - 04:50
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is tacking on a few new features for the Linux 6.5 kernel...

GNOME 45 Alpha Released With Various Optimizations, Better Built-In Screen Recorder

Thu, 07/06/2023 - 04:26
It's already time for the first alpha release of the in-development GNOME 45 desktop...

AMD-Xilinx Versal Watchdog Driver Coming In Linux 6.5

Thu, 07/06/2023 - 01:28
There's been a lot of AMD-Xilinx code going upstream in the Linux kernel over the past few months to benefit AMD's embedded efforts from the QDMA driver to CDX bus to XDMA and more. The latest hitting the kernel is an AMD-Xilinx Versal watchdog driver...

Steam Deck vs. ASUS ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 23:40
With the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld that began shipping last month I've so far looked at the Linux support for this device as well as looking at the Windows 11 vs. Linux gaming performance as well as the Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU performance. What many Phoronix readers have been most interested in seeing though are the side-by-side benchmarks for Valve's Steam Deck up against the ASUS ROG Ally. Today's benchmarks provide just that comparison plus some CPU benchmarks too.

AMD Improving Xen VirtIO GPU Support For In-Vehicle Infotainment, Using RADV

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 21:43
As I've written about a few times in recent months, AMD has been enhancing GPU support for use under Xen virtualization. Their interests in Xen weren't clear to this point given that KVM virtualization tends to be the dominant solution these days when it comes to open-source Linux virtualization. Now it's been revealed that the AMD GPU interests in Xen stem from an in-vehicle infotainment play...

UDisks 2.10 Released With Native NVMe Support, LVM2 RAID

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 20:08
UDisks 2.10 was released last week for this set abstraction layer providing a daemon and tooling around the manipulation of disks and storage devices under Linux...

Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 18:23
Thanks to Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux team, the Mesa RADV driver has added support for the VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness Vulkan extension as an efficiency win and will be beneficial for Steam Play gaming...

Intel Plumbs SoundWire ACE2.x Support, Premiering With Lunar Lake

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 18:03
In addition to Lunar Lake sound driver support in Linux 6.5 and the recent SOF update for Sound Open Firmware for Lunar Lake, Linux 6.5 is also bringing initial SoundWire Intel ACE2.x support that is part of the Lunar Lake audio capabilities...

UPower 1.90.1 Released As First Update In A Year

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 17:34
Released yesterday was a new version of UPower, the FreeDesktop.org software known long ago as DeviceKit-Power and used as an abstraction layer for enumerating power devices on Linux and other platforms. The new UPower 1.90.1 release is the first update to this software in just shy of one year...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 07:33
LXD as the open-source container management extension for Linux Containers (LXC) has long been closely associated with Canonical due to its founding and pushed along by the Ubuntu maker as one of their software offerings. However, it has to this point been part of the Linux Containers project except moving forward Canonical has decided to pull it more into their direct control...

Scope-Based Resource Management Infrastructure Merged For Linux 6.5

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 07:08
Here comes a very exciting addition to the Linux 6.5 kernel: the initial infrastructure has landed for scope-based resource management...

Linux 6.5 Brings Improvements To Firewire Support

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 04:15
While it's likely been years since most of you touched any Firewire devices, for those still having any old DV cameras around or professional audio hardware with an IEEE-1394 interface, Linux 6.5 is bringing improvements to its Firewire subsystem that until recently has been rather dormant for years...

Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux

Tue, 07/04/2023 - 21:22
Mozilla Firefox 115.0 official builds are now available for this notable update to this open-source web browser while also marking the new Extended Support Release (ESR) series...

GCC 14 Adds Support For RISC-V Vector Crypto Extensions

Tue, 07/04/2023 - 18:25
The GNU Compiler Collection 14 (GCC 14) will feature support for the new RISC-V processor ISA vector cryptographic extensions...

Linux 6.5 Workqueues Add Automatic CPU-Intensive Detection & Monitoring

Tue, 07/04/2023 - 18:13
Tejun Heo last week submitted the workqueue changes for the Linux 6.5 kernel and they include an interesting addition...

libjpeg-turbo 3.0 Released But May Be The End Of Feature Work Due To Funding Constraints

Tue, 07/04/2023 - 10:16
The libjpeg-turbo 3.0 open-source release occurred today for this open-source JPEG image codec implementation focused on SIMD instruction usage for optimized efficiency. While libjpeg-turbo has been a great open-source development success and has seen widespread use, its feature development moving forward may be limited due to funding gaps...

Linux 6.5 KVM Brings Guest Snapshots For RISC-V, AMD PerfMonV2 For VMs

Tue, 07/04/2023 - 01:25
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were submitted today that are ready for introduction in the Linux 6.5 kernel...

GNU Binutils 2.41 Coming With Intel AMX-COMPLEX + FRED/LKGS, New RISC-V & LoongArch Bits

Mon, 07/03/2023 - 22:52
GNU Binutils 2.41 was branched today in its Git repository in preparations for releasing this collection of binary utilities widely relied upon by Linux and other platforms...

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