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Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 09/07/2023 - 03:22
Igalia developers are working on extending the Broadcom V3D DRM kernel graphics driver, which is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi devices, to support the notion of "CPU jobs" in kernel space to assist in their Vulkan support. These CPU jobs are for assisting the support where their Broadcom GPU driver isn't capable of some Vulkan commands and thus needs to be punted off and handled by the processor...

CephFS Completes Multi-Year Effort Adding FSCRYPT Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/07/2023 - 02:00
The Ceph changes were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window and with it comes one big shiny feature addition: support for making use of the FSCRYPT file-system encryption framework...

GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work

Phoronix - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 23:20
The release candidates were tagged this morning of GNOME Shell and Mutter ahead of the "GNOME 45.rc" test release coming out within the next few days. With the release candidates are some last-minute changes worth mentioning...

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 21:00
Last month AMD announced the Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT graphics cards while today these graphics cards go on sale for $449 and $499 USD, respectively. Today also marks the review embargo lift so I'm now able to talk about the Linux support and performance for these new RDNA3 graphics cards that are designed for 1440p gaming,

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