Open-source News

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Sees More Performance Tuning, Regression Fixing

Phoronix - Tue, 06/13/2023 - 17:50
Following my recent RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL benchmarking for various games and workloads, Valve's Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz was hopping on some of the benchmarks where this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation lagged behind the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

How to Upgrade Debian 11 to Debian 12 (Bookworm) via CLI

Tecmint - Tue, 06/13/2023 - 14:38
The post How to Upgrade Debian 11 to Debian 12 (Bookworm) via CLI first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Are you planning to upgrade to the latest release of Debian 12 (codenamed “Bookworm”), from Debian 11? But did you know that instead of downloading

The post How to Upgrade Debian 11 to Debian 12 (Bookworm) via CLI first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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...

Pages