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KDE Begins Laying The Groundwork For HDR Support, Wayland Color Management

Phoronix - Sat, 05/20/2023 - 23:38
As covered a few days ago on Phoronix, there's been early progress on HDR display support for the KDE desktop among other highlights this week...

Intel Publishes "X86-S" Specification For 64-bit Only Architecture

Phoronix - Sat, 05/20/2023 - 18:30
Intel quietly released a new whitepaper and specification for their proposal on "X86-S" as a 64-bit only x86 architecture. If their plans workout, in the years ahead we could see a revised 64-bit only x86 architecture...

Microsoft Preparing For Their First Vulkan Extension

Phoronix - Sat, 05/20/2023 - 17:55
While the Vulkan high performance graphics and compute API is backed by many vendors, Microsoft and Apple are two notable organizations that haven't backed this Khronos Group standard. For Microsoft's part, they obviously prefer their in-house Direct3D. However, Microsoft is making preparations for submitting their first Vulkan extension...

AMD Has A One-Liner To Help Speed Up Linux System Resume Time

Phoronix - Sat, 05/20/2023 - 17:43
AMD engineers have been working out many quirks and oddities in system suspend/resume handling to make it more reliable on their hardware particularly around Ryzen laptops. In addition to suspend/resume reliability improvements and suspend-to-idle (s2idle) enhancements, one of their engineers also discovered an easy one-liner as a small step to speeding up system resume time...

Virtual ALSA Driver Posted To Help With Linux Testing/Fuzzing

Phoronix - Sat, 05/20/2023 - 17:28
Ivan Orlov this past week posted the patches for VALSA, the Virtual ALSA sound driver that aims to help Linux kernel developers in testing and fuzzing of the sound subsystem...

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