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GNOME Mutter Lands New Work To Reduce Input Latency
Long running work by Ivan Molodetskikh to reduce the input latency for GNOME's Mutter compositor was merged today...
Older Intel Graphics With Crocus Enjoy EXT_gpu_shader4, GLAMOR 2D Improvements
Mesa's independent Crocus Gallium3D driver providing a modern OpenGL driver alternative for Haswell and older graphics hardware continues seeing improvements following its recent mainlining...
Intel Gets Back To Years-Long Journey Upstreaming PECI
Intel open-source engineers are back around with a new take on introducing a PECI subsystem for the Linux kernel to ultimately make their Xeon servers more attractive and friendly for OpenBMC usage...
OpenCL 3.0.8 Released With New Extension To Help AI Inferencing
The Khronos Group recently released a new minor point release to the OpenCL 3.0 specification...
Linux 5.14 Features From Secret Memory Areas To New Hardware, Core Scheduling, Legacy IDE Dropped
With last night's release of Linux 5.14-rc1 the merge window is officially over for this next version of the Linux kernel. With that, here is a look at the highlights for the forthcoming Linux 5.14 kernel based upon our original reporting during the merge window.
digiKam 7.3 Brings Multi-Threaded Image Duplication Search, File Format Improvements
DigiKam as the popular open-source image organizer is out with its version 7.3 feature release...
OpenBLAS 0.3.16 Brings Various CPU Fixes, More Optimizations
OpenBLAS as the popular open-source high performance BLAS/LAPACK implementation has seen a new release with more CPU/architecture specific work as well as some new common optimizations...
Ubuntu Developer Still Pursuing Triple Buffering, Deep Color For GNOME
Triple buffering and deep color support are two of the features still being worked on for GNOME by Ubuntu maker Canonical...
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Geometry Shaders
Mesa's V3DV Vulkan driver for newer Broadcom VideoCore graphics IP that is most notably used by the newer Raspberry Pi single board computers now has support for geometry shaders as its latest feature...
Process_Reap Syscall Proposed For Linux To More Quickly Reclaim Memory Under Pressure
While there are the likes of OOMD / systemd-oomd gaining acceptance as a daemon for Linux systems to deal with killing off processes and other behavior under system memory (RAM) pressure, there still is an issue of the time it takes until the memory is reclaimed by those dying processes. Google engineers at the end of June proposed "process_reap" as a new system call to help in that memory recovery...
Microsoft's Internal Linux Distribution "CBL-Mariner" Continues Maturing
Besides Azure Cloud Switch as a Linux platform created by Microsoft, the Windows company has also been developing CBL-Mariner (Common Base Linux) as their own internal albeit public and open-source Linux distribution...
Linux 5.14-rc1 Released - Big GPU Drivers Update, Secret Memory Option + Core Scheduling
Following the two-week long merge window, the first release candidate to Linux 5.14 is now available with all the shiny new features to be found in this next kernel release...
China's Alternative To GSoC Is Seeing Some Interesting Summer Open-Source Projects
Back in May we wrote about China launching an alternative to Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. This global open-source program hosted by the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences is running "Summer 2021" for encouraging university-aged students regardless of gender or nationality to get involved in open-source development...
New X.Org Server Release While Maintaining Separate XWayland Being Discussed
Last week marked a X.Org Server 21.1 development snapshot being released. While that snapshot noted there will "most likely be no proper release", there is discussion now over creating such a X.Org-Server-Without-XWayland release...
Haiku Marching Towards R1 Beta 3, RISC-V Bring-Up, Intel Display work
The Haiku open-source operating system building off the inspiration and work of BeOS is continuing strong over the summer months...
Linux 5.14 Can Create Secret Memory Areas With memfd_secret
The "memfd_secret" system call is being added to the Linux 5.14 kernel to provide the ability to create memory areas that are visible only in the context of the owning process and these "secret" memory regions are not mapped by other processes or the kernel page tables...
CentOS Forms A Group To Flip On Old, Deprecated Or Out-Of-Tree Kernel Modules
The CentOS Board of Directors has approved the formation of the CentOS Kmods special interest group for expanding the selection of kernel modules available to this distribution...
VirtIO-IOMMU Comes To x86 With Linux 5.14
The VirtIO-IOMMU driver now works on x86/x86_64 hardware with the Linux 5.14 kernel...
Intel Posts Newest Advanced Matrix Extensions Patches For Linux (AMX Patches v7)
For over one year now since Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) was first disclosed as a future feature with Xeon "Sapphire Rapids", Intel engineers have been posting AMX patches for enabling the new support for changes needed from the kernel to code compiler stacks. The Linux kernel support for AMX hasn't yet landed but has now been revised its seventh time for public review...
Intel Working On Implementing GuC Firmware Based Power Management For Linux
Going back to 2017 was work on firmware-based power management for Intel graphics with its GuC implementation. That work didn't advance with the time but now with Intel renewing their work around GuC and with future hardware may mandate this binary-only firmware, they are again revisiting the GuC power management...