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Intel Continues Prepping Meteor Lake Graphics On Linux, Adds VRR eDP Support

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 23:52
Due to not having sent in any feature pull requests to DRM-Next in prior weeks due to a miscommunication, sent out today was a bit set of Intel "i915" kernel graphics driver changes targeting this next kernel cycle...

Firefox 114 Available With WebTransport Enabled, Continued DNS Over HTTPS Work

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 23:27
Following last week's release of Chrome 114, Mozilla developers today uploaded the release binaries for Firefox 114 ahead of tomorrow's official announcement...

Intel's Codeplay Announces oneAPI Construction Kit For Bringing SYCL To New Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 21:50
Codeplay Software, which was acquired by Intel last June, has an exciting announcement to make today in the form of the oneAPI Construction Kit. This open-source project aims to help ease bringing up SYCL on new processor/accelerator architectures, particularly around HPC and AI. The oneAPI Construction Kit also has a reference implementation for RISC-V...

MIDI 2.0 Driver Support Coming With Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 18:28
Last month Linux's sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai published a set of Linux driver patches for MIDI 2.0 support for the USB Audio and Raw MIDI drivers. That roughly six thousand lines of new code for the MIDI 2.0 driver coverage is now expected to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...

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