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Fake Sparse Support Merged For Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver To Make More Games Playable

Phoronix - Fri, 08/04/2023 - 05:14
Preventing some modern Windows games from running on Intel Arc Graphics under Linux with Valve's Steam Play has been held up by lack of sparse support within Intel's ANV Vulkan driver. Those limitations will hopefully be overcome with the Intel Xe kernel mode driver when that is mainlined in hopefully the coming months, but for now it's a bit of a sore spot for Intel Linux gamers. A partial workaround though has now been merged for Mesa 23.3 with fake sparse support...

With Linux 6.6, Intel Restoring Panel Self Refresh For Aging Haswell/Broadwell Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 08/04/2023 - 03:52
It's been ten years since Intel launched the Haswell processors that were great for the time followed by Broadwell. On the laptop side for Haswell and Broadwell the Panel Self Refresh (PSR) power-savings support has been rather notorious at least on the Linux side. Finally for the Linux 6.6 kernel due out in late 2023, the developers are re-enabling PSR support for these aging laptops...

What is Embedded Linux? - Robotics and Automation News

Google News - Fri, 08/04/2023 - 03:28
What is Embedded Linux?  Robotics and Automation News

Linux Patches Updated To Fix Latest Suspend/Resume Issues For Some AMD Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 08/04/2023 - 01:39
An updated patch-set was sent out on Wednesday to address fixing wake-up problems for some AMD client platforms when going through a suspend/resume cycle...

Linux 6.6 DRM-Misc-Next Carries VirtIO Sync Objects, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 08/03/2023 - 23:11
Another weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes were sent out today to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the Linux 6.6 merge window opening in a few weeks...

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