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VMware SVGA Graphics Driver Switches To NIR By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 06/13/2023 - 06:25
VMware's SVGA Gallium3D driver that provides OpenGL support within guest virtual machines running with VMware virtualization products is now finally defaulting to using the modern NIR intermediate representative rather than Gallium3D's TGSI...

AMD Continues Work On Enhancing GPU Support With Xen Virtualization

Phoronix - Tue, 06/13/2023 - 00:51
In recent months AMD open-source graphics driver engineers seem to be taking more interest in supporting the Xen hypervisor with their graphics hardware. It's not clear yet externally if this is just due to customer demand or other yet-to-be-announced interest in Xen...

RISC-V KASLR Support For Linux Revised Again

Phoronix - Mon, 06/12/2023 - 23:52
While the upstream Linux kernel support for RISC-V continues to improve with new ISA features, support for more RISC-V SoCs, and other enhancements, in some areas the open-source RISC-V code continues to play catch-up with the other mature architectures supported by the Linux kernel. One of the areas still pending is enabling KASLR support for RISC-V on Linux to enhance system security...

Linux cpupower Tool Being Extended For AMD P-State Features

Phoronix - Mon, 06/12/2023 - 22:20
The cpupower tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree can be used for easily querying and setting various CPU power-related features. This tool now has patches pending for extending it for exposing more functionality found within AMD's modern P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...

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