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Wine 8.0-rc5 Released With Just Nine Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 01/21/2023 - 02:45
Work on Wine 8.0 is winding down and it looks like the stable release could be out next week or otherwise very soon...

RADV Receives Patches To Help With Less Stuttering For Zink

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 22:00
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has added support for dynamic blend equations to help with the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation and ideally lead to less stuttering...

Linux Takes Another Shot At Fixing Visual Glitches & GPU Hangs For Intel Sandy Bridge

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 20:30
Intel Sandy Bridge processors launched 12 years ago this month and if you still are relying on these 32nm CPUs, it's really time to consider an upgrade for not only the performance but also security and power efficiency reasons. But if you are content with still churning away on a Sandy Bridge desktop under Linux, picked up for upstream and marked for back-porting is another attempt at dealing with visual glitches and GPU hangs that have been affecting some users with the integrated graphics...

Intel Optimization Around Batched TLB Flushing For Folios Looks Great

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 20:20
A patch worked on by an Intel engineer for batched TLB flushing for page migration with folios is showing some promising results and currently working its way to the mainline kernel...

Microsoft's "Dzn" Mesa Code Achieving 99.75%+ Vulkan 1.0 Conformance

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 19:46
Microsoft's Dozen "Dzn" code within Mesa is a Vulkan implementation built atop Direct3D 12 for enjoying this modern industry-standard graphics/compute API atop Microsoft's D3D12 API, should the system lack an underlying native Vulkan driver or in cases like using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Dozen is now above 99% for its conformance pass rate for Vulkan 1.0 and more of Vulkan 1.1 is now being worked on by Microsoft's engineers that contribute the open-source code to Mesa...

Updated Intel oneAPI Level Zero Loader Brings Support For The L0 v1.5 Spec

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 19:23
Released on Thursday was the oneAPI Level Zero Loader v1.9.4 as the newest open-source software release from the company...

Mold 1.10 Released With Few New Features For This High Speed Linker

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 19:05
Mold 1.10 was released today by lead developer Rui Ueyama as the newest version of this high speed linker that has been outperforming GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

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