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Intel Visual Sensing Controller Enablement Work Continues For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 19:45
Linux 6.6 brought an initial Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" driver. The Intel IVSC drivers have long been out-of-tree for use with Alder Lake laptops and newer. Linux 6.7 brought the La Jolla Cove Adadpter driver code as part of the IVSC controller. With Linux 6.8 there's yet more work landing on the IVSC front...

Cling 1.0 Released For Interactive C++ Interpreter

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 19:30
Cling 1.0 was released this week for this open-source interactive C++ interpreter that builds atop LLVM/Clang. Cling is implemented as an extension to LLVM/Clang to serve as an interpeter leveraging the read-eval-print loop (REPL) concept and relies on just-in-time (JIT) compilation...

Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 19:11
The feature work continues pouring in for Mesa 24.0 with new OpenGL and Vulkan driver features continuing to be enabled...

More Bcachefs Fixes Land In Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Tue, 12/12/2023 - 09:03
Of the many new features in Linux 6.7, one of the items exciting Phoronix readers the most is the merging of the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system...

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