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AMD PMF Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For Smart PC Solution Builder

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 20:24
As written about last month, AMD Linux engineers have been working on PMF Linux driver support for a "Smart PC Solutions Builder". The AMD Smart PC Solutions Builder feature is intended to provide OEMs with more control over system power/performance policies. It looks like systems making use of this feature are already to the marketplace or imminent with AMD having already landed the PMF firmware...

Mesa 23.3 Will Enable More Efficient MSAA Anti-Aliasing Use With Radeon RDNA3 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 18:37
Adding to the list of notable features coming with Mesa 23.3 later this quarter is enabling delta color compression (DCC) for multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) images on AMD RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics processors...

How to Install VLC Media Player in Fedora 38

Tecmint - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 16:31
The post How to Install VLC Media Player in Fedora 38 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

VLC is a free and open source, popular, and cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays files, discs, webcams, devices as well as streams. VLC

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Tweaking SteamOS For Better Steam Deck Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 04:20
A Phoronix reader recently published a guide that at its heart is a set of commands aimed at boosting the performance of SteamOS on the AMD APU powered Steam Deck. Here are some benchmarks showing the performance impact from these changes on the SteamOS 3.5 Preview release.

Linux Will Finally Indicate Via /proc/cpuinfo If AMD SVM Virtualization Is Disabled

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 03:18
Checking for the presence of Intel virtualization (VMX) support and it being enabled can be easily achieved by looking at the flags in /proc/cpuinfo. But to this point AMD virtualization (SVM) has always been shown to user-space via /proc/cpuinfo even when the BIOS/platform has disabled SVM functionality. Finally for Linux 6.7 this oversight is being corrected...

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