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Linux 5.19-rc5 Released - "Slightly Smaller Than Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 07/04/2022 - 07:06
A week ago with Linux 5.19-rc4 there was concern over that weekly release being larger than normal, but this week with Linux 5.19-rc5 it's smaller than normal, which is pleasing Linux creator Linus Torvalds...

AMD Gets Back To Working On Their "Jadeite" Platform For Linux In 2022

Phoronix - Sun, 07/03/2022 - 21:05
Somewhat surprisingly, AMD engineers have been working on some new Linux kernel patches for their aging Jadeite platform...

When Time Comes For GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 07/03/2022 - 18:48
While GTK4 is still in its early stages and it will presumably be some years before "GTK5" even begins to take shape, GNOME developers are already thinking of ditching X11 support for that next major GTK release -- effectively making it Wayland-only on Linux...

Intel Media Driver 2022Q2 Adds HDR10/HVS Support For DG2, Raptor Lake P Enabling

Phoronix - Sun, 07/03/2022 - 17:22
In addition to Intel this week releasing the VA-API 2.15 video acceleration library, their open-source engineers also published their newest quarterly feature release of their open-source Intel Media Driver that implements the VA-API interface for their graphics hardware...

Sound Open Firmware 2.2 Released With Optimizations. Continued Zephyr Porting

Phoronix - Sun, 07/03/2022 - 16:56
Back in 2018 Intel announced Sound Open Firmware (SOF) as their push for open-source sound firmware and looking to drive new software innovations in the audio DSP space. Out this week is Sound Open Firmware 2.2 for providing the newest features for this open-source software stack supporting Windows and Linux...

Etnaviv Gallium3D Lands Async Shader Compilation With ARB_parallel_shader_compile

Phoronix - Sun, 07/03/2022 - 16:36
For those interested in the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver that provides reverse-engineered, open-source OpenGL support for Vivante graphics IP its newest feature is supporting GLSL asynchronous shader compilation...

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