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Mesa's Zink Driver Enables cl_khr_gl_sharing, Working On DaVinci Resolve Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 04:07
Mesa's generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has landed support for cl_khr_gl_sharing, the extension that allows using OpenGL buffer / texture / render-buffer objects as OpenCL memory objects for better interoperability between the OpenGL and OpenCL APIs. This is important as in turn it is needed for the Zink driver to be used with the popular DaVinci Resolve video editor application...

Rust 1.85 Release Stabilizes Rust 2024 Edition

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 02:18
Rust 1.85 is out today and it is also the release that stabilizes the Rust 2024 Edition...

OpenRazer 3.10 Delivers New Razer Hardware Support For Linux Users

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 01:49
OpenRazer 3.10 was just released as the newest update to this set of community-maintained, open-source out-of-tree driver packages for enabling Razer device support on Linux...

Linux Finally Introducing A Standardized Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 00:10
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to finally introduce a standardized way of informing user-space of GPUs becoming hung or otherwise unresponsive. This is initially wired up for AMD and Intel graphics drivers on Linux so the user can be properly notified of problems and/or user-space software taking steps to address the hung/unresponsive graphics processor...

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Now Available With Initial HWE Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 21:55
Following last week's delay due to a packaging mishap, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is available today as the newest point release for this current Long Term Support version of Ubuntu Linux...

Linux Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" Reducing TLB Shootdowns By 97%, Faster AI LLM Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 20:07
SK has been working on a Linux kernel feature dubbed Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" to defer TLB flushes until folios have been unmapped and freed are eventually allocated again...

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