Open-source News

New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 06/03/2026 - 17:44
As a follow-up to the article last week about KRAID as a new compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics, that initial code has now been merged to Mesa 26.2 for benefiting the Panfrost and PanVK open-source drivers...

Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable

Phoronix - Wed, 06/03/2026 - 08:50
At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable...

Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 06/03/2026 - 08:30
Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others...

Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal"

Phoronix - Wed, 06/03/2026 - 03:18
Microsoft today announced their newest open-source creation... Under the MIT license it's the Intelligent Terminal...

Pages