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FFmpeg Now Works With VA-API On Windows Thanks To Microsoft

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 21:14
VA-API has been around for more than one decade as the most common Linux Video Acceleration API that works across multiple GPU/driver vendors. It's been Linux-focused to this point while thanks to the work of Microsoft has begun seeing support on Windows...

Mesa's Rusticl Driver Adds Optional OpenCL FP64 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 20:34
The newest feature added by Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst to the Rusticl Mesa OpenCL open-source driver is FP64 support...

EXT4 Sees Some Performance Optimizations, Folio Conversion With Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 20:20
While often times the EXT4 file-system driver updates for new Linux kernel merge windows can be rather mundane given the maturity of this widely-used Linux file-system, this time around for Linux 6.4 it's a bit more exciting...

Linux 6.4 Can Run As A Confidential AMD SEV-SNP vTOM Guest On Microsoft Hyper-V

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 18:46
For those making use of Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization there are some notable additions to find with the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel...

Initial Apple M2 Support & Other 64-bit ARM Changes For Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 18:26
On Monday the ARM64 (AArch64) architecture code changes were submitted for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel along with the various SoC updates and various platform/machine additions for ARM hardware with this new kernel version...

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