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AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 18:00
Back in 2020 AMD rolled out a video mode optimization for FreeSync on Linux, continued being revised in 2021, FreeSync Video mode then attempted by default in 2022 but then was reverted and then only last year FreeSync Video enabled by default. But now come Linux 6.9, the feature appears to be effectively retired...

WavPack Lossless Audio Compression Format Adds Multi-Threaded Encode/Decode

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 16:00
The WavPack open-source lossless wavefile compressor is up to version 5.7 after more than one year in development. Making this new release quite notable is adding multi-threaded encode and decode support to the WavPack library and its CLI tools...

Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 13:00
Should you be running nine or more GPUs per system, the Mesa 24.1 release next quarter will raise the limit of 8 DRM devices for the Vulkan API per system to now allow a theoretical 256 GPUs per system...

Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 08:37
With Steam on Linux use for January clocking in at 1.95%, I was very eager to see if the February results would once again surpass the 2.0% threshold... Unfortunately, it moved in the opposite direction...

Intel Makes Open-Source Its Python NPU Acceleration Library

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 00:45
Intel has made open-source its NPU Acceleration Library (intel-npu-acceleration-library) as a user-space library for Windows and Linux systems for interfacing with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found initially on their new Meteor Lake laptops...

Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 00:20
It looks like the new Panthor DRM driver will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel now that it made it into drm-misc-next today. In turn the Mesa 24.1-devel code has landed support for this newer Arm Mali graphics into the Panfrost Gallium3D driver...

Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 23:35
Succeeding last year's Coreboot 4.22 release is now a new release... Coreboot 24.02. This open-source system firmware project is now the latest to shift to a year-month versioning system. The newly-christened Coreboot 24.02 brings support for three new motherboards, a number of ACPI updates, and also pulls in the new GRUB 2.12 and other changes...

Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 23:24
The long in-development work for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support plumbed into GNOME's Mutter compositor might still make it for the GNOME 46 desktop release due out this month. It's still being treated as an experimental feature at this point but a feature freeze exception is being sought to allow its inclusion this release rather than waiting for GNOME 47 in the autumn...

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