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Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 20:04
One of the great aspects of Intel integrated and discrete graphics is the broad support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). Intel "Gen12" graphics back to Tigerlake can handle SR-IOV when there aren't any firmware woes or other issues at play. There is SR-IOV support currently with the i915 kernel driver but Intel engineers are working to architect optimal SR-IOV integration into their forthcoming Xe DRM kernel driver...

FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 19:35
While it was supposed to ship back in H1'2023, FFmpeg 6.1 finally released last night as the newest feature update to this widely-used multimedia library...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland By Default, Initial Support For HDR-Capable Games

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 19:24
It's been an exciting week in the KDE space as along with releasing Plasma 6.0 Alpha, they have also committed to shipping Plasma 6.0 with the Wayland session being enabled by default...

TUXEDO Computers Launches Zen 4 Linux Laptop With 32GB RAM & 3K Display

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 19:00
Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has introduced their first Ryzen 7040 series "Zen 4" Linux laptop in the form of the Pulse 14 Gen 3...

Wine 8.20 Closes 13 Year Old Bug To Register URL Protocol Handlers On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 06:06
Wine 8.20 is out today and it takes care of quite a vintage bug report... A feature request from 2010 to be able to register URL protocol handlers under Linux...

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