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Linux Patches Updated For Sapphire Rapids C0.x Idle States

Phoronix - Sun, 06/11/2023 - 18:33
While Intel has been working on the Sapphire Rapids support for Linux going back years and to other key components like GCC and LLVM/Clang to provide for a good at-launch experience with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, one bit that they hadn't squared away in advance of launch has been the new C0.x idle states. These new idle states between POLL and C1 allow for a mix of low latency and better power-savings than POLL...

Mesa's Venus VirtIO-GPU Driver Adds More Extensions To Help Zink

Phoronix - Sun, 06/11/2023 - 18:15
The Mesa Venus driver that provides Vulkan API support for use inside of QEMU with VirtIO-GPU has added a number of extensions to help support for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

Wine-Staging 8.10 Adds D3D9 Improvement, Fix For A Bug Open Since 2009

Phoronix - Sun, 06/11/2023 - 18:06
Friday marked the release of Wine 8.10 as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot for this software allowing Windows games and apps to run on Linux and elsewhere. Out now is Wine-Staging 8.10 as the more experimental/testing form with an extra 500 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...

Debian 13 "Trixie" Aiming To Ship With RISC-V 64-Bit Support

Phoronix - Sun, 06/11/2023 - 06:38
With today's release of Debian 12 the official ports are for AMD64, AArch64, ARMEL, ARMHF, i386, MIPS, 64-bit MIPS, POWER, and IBM System Z. There isn't RISC-V 64-bit as an official port but that is likely to change for Debian 13...

Debian 12.0 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Easier Non-Free Firmware Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 20:00
Following more than one and a half years in development, Debian 12 is officially shipping today as the latest major release for this long-maintained Linux distribution...

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