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AMDGPU Linux Driver Preparing Gang Submission Interface
The AMDGPU Linux kernel driver is preparing a new interface for allowing user-space to submit work to the GPU that will be executed across multiple engines simultaneously...
VMware Enabling VMWGFX 3D Support For AArch64
VMware engineers are in the process of enabling 3D acceleration within their VMWGFX driver on AArch64 so those making use of VMware virtualization software on 64-bit Arm will be able to enjoy accelerated 3D guest virtual machines...
AMD Lands New CDNA "GFX940" GPU Target In LLVM Backend, GFX1036 Merged Too
AMD developers had a busy day with merging into mainline LLVM for the AMDGPU shader compiler is a new Vega/CDNA "GFX940" GPU target as well as a GFX1036 RDNA GPU target...
AMD-Powered Lenovo ThinkPads To Soon Have Working Platform Profile Support On Linux
Last month I covered the issue of Lenovo's ACPI Platform Profile support for AMD-powered laptops was busted on Linux. The platform profile controls were exposed but in reality did not work. Fortunately, fixed up support for this feature is now on the way to the Linux kernel for letting users choose between better performance or extended battery life and cooler operating device...
KDAB Launches CXX-Qt To Provide Safe Rust Language Bindings For Qt
KDE/Qt-focused consulting firm KDAB has been developing CXX-Qt as a new project to improve integration of the Rust programming language with the Qt toolkit...
VKD3D 1.3 Being Prepared For Release
While the VKD3D-Proton downstream gets much of the spotlight these days for the Direct3D 12 API implemented atop Vulkan for use by Valve's Steam Play (Proton), Wine's VKD3D continues to be developed and is closing in on its v1.3 release...
openSUSE Leap 15.4 Beta Builds Now Available For Testing
OpenSUSE has begun the beta phase of openSUSE Leap 15.4...
UCIe Announced For Fostering An Open Chiplet Ecosystem
The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium was announced today for fostering an open chiplet ecosystem for future generations of hardware...
Intel "In-Field Scan" Coming With Sapphire Rapids As New Silicon Failure Testing Feature
Intel In-Field Scan is a hardware feature we have not heard the company talk about publicly until yesterday when they posted a new open-source Linux driver for this hardware failure testing feature being introduced with Sapphire Rapids processors...
Microsoft Has Another Go At Their DirectX Linux Kernel Driver
Microsoft on Tuesday posted a third iteration of their "DXGKRNL" Linux kernel driver for DirectX / Hyper-V compute support for use within Windows Subsystem for Linux / Windows Subsystem for Android...
New Patches Posted For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U
Last month there were discussions around potentially working to upstream the Linux support for Nintendo's Wii U game console. While there are serious limitations to the support, posted today were the patch series for review providing basic Wii U enablement...
CentOS New "AutoSD" Distribution Announced For In-Vehicle Linux Distro
The CentOS Automotive Special Interest Group today is announcing the Automotive Stream "AutoSD" Linux distribution...
HarfBuzz 4.0 Released For This Open-Source Text Shaping Library
The HarfBuzz open-source text shaping library that is used by GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt, Android, Java, Flutter, Firefox, LibreOffice, and numerous other applications and toolkits is out with HarfBuzz 4.0...
Chrome 99 Released With Canvas 2D Improvements, Other Developer Features
We are now one release away from Chrome 100 but prior to that now available is Chrome 99 that brings a number of prominent developer additions...
AMD Adds Support For New "GFX1036" / "GFX1037" Hardware To Linux OpenGL Driver
As part of AMD's new approach for quietly bringing up new graphics hardware support within their open-source Linux graphics driver, today AMD landed new graphics chip support within their RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
Valve Launches "Aperture Desk Job" As A Free, Short Game For The Steam Deck
Valve's newest game is... Aperture Desk Job. This is a mini game set within the Portal universe and used for showing off the Steam Deck controls while also working with other game controllers too...
Amazon Officially Launches Luna In The US - Limited Linux Support
After announcing Amazon Luna back in 2020 as their cloud gaming service, today Amazon officially rolled it out to all US users. With this launch also comes a limited, rotating selection of games free to Amazon Prime members...
Mozilla Launches A New MDN, MDN Plus Coming Soon
The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has been an invaluable resource over the years for web developers with a plethora of open, detailed documentation on a wide variety of HTMl, CSS, and JavaScript features along with extensive Web API references. While MDN has suffered setbacks from recent Mozilla layoffs, today the organization is launching their new MDN and reaffirming that MDN Plus will be announced soon...
MPlayer 1.5 Released To Advance This Open-Source Video Player
After not seeing a new release for nearly three years, MPlayer 1.5 was released this past weekend for this open-source media player...
Genode OS 22.02 Improves Ability To Use Linux Device Drivers, Adds VirtualBox 3D Guests
Genode OS continues to be developed as an innovative open-source operating system framework. Genode developers closed out February by issuing the Genode OS Framework 22.02 release with many new features and improvements...
