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Intel Releases OSPRay 3.0 With Initial GPU Acceleration

Phoronix - Thu, 10/19/2023 - 01:00
Following other Intel oneAPI components like Embree and OpenVKL introducing GPU acceleration via SYCL, today Intel released the open-source OSPRay 3.0 that rolls out initial GPU support for this portable ray-tracing engine...

X.Org's GLAMOR Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0 Shaders

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 22:50
Merged last week to the X.Org Server is support in the 2D-acceleration-via-OpenGL GLAMOR code for allowing OpenGL ES 3.0 (GLES3) shaders...

The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 22:36
Kicking off XDC 2023 yesterday in Spain was Igalia's Melissa Wen talking about her work on color management with the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack to empower Valve's Linux work on the Steam Deck. That was followed by Joshua Ashton of Valve talking about their work on HDR and color management from the Steam OS / Gamescope side for the Steam Deck...

Inspur WMI Platform Profile Driver Being Worked On For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 22:05
Adding to the list of vendors exposing ACPI Platform Profile controls under Linux so the user can easily set their power/performance preference for the system is major Chinese hardware company Inspur...

Mold 2.3 Linker Allows Removing Superfluous ENDBR64 Instructions

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 20:21
Mold 2.3 was released today by Rui Ueyama as the newest version of this high-speed linker alternative to LLVM LLD and GNU Gold...

Qt 6.5 LTS Shifts To Its Commercial-Only Phase

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 18:38
It's already that time of the Qt 6.5 long-term support (LTS) cycle where The Qt Company has shifted it over to being focused on access only to their commercial customers...

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