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Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:51
Introduced in April 2021 was the initial Vulkan Video support for a new video encode/decode API built around Vulkan. That initial Vulkan Video support was catered to H.264 and H.265 while finally with today's Vulkan 1.3.277 release there is a new extension introduced for AV1 video decoding...

GNU libmicrohttpd 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 01:42
GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0.0 is out today as the first major release of this C library implementing an easy-to-run HTTP web server that is embed-friendly for use by other applications...

More AMD SEV-SNP Support To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 00:08
More of AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for memory encrypted VMs is set to make it upstream for the Linux 6.9 kernel coming out toward the middle of the year...

New Features Approved For Fedora 40, Renewed Debate Over Dropping KDE X11 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 23:43
This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on some new features coming for Fedora 40 this April...

IPU6 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Recent Intel Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 23:19
Webcameras on newer Intel laptops have been challenging for Linux use without resorting to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space components, but that's been thankfully changing with progress being made on an open-source stack. There's still proprietary firmware necessary for enabling the IPU6 image processing unit, but at least that too is now in linux-firmware.git for easy distribution and packaging by Linux distributions...

AMD P-State Preferred Core Support Coming With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 19:50
Since last August AMD Linux engineers have been working on P-State Preferred Core support for the "amd_pstate" driver so that this functionality can be leveraged under Linux for improved task placement...

Framework 16, New AMD Launches & More Made For An Exciting January

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 19:40
January was a busy month with a number of notable hardware launches from the Framework 16 laptop to the new AMD Ryzen 8000G series APUs to the new System76 Thelio Major workstation powered by Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series. There were 268 original news articles and another 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles on Phoronix during the last month. With all that daily original content, here's a look back at the most popular news and reviews from January...

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