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Intel Preparing USI Stylus Support For Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 22:12
Intel open-source driver engineers have been working on USI stylus support for the Linux kernel. The Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) aims to offer interoperability of active styluses across touchscreen devices...

RADV Vulkan Driver Finally Adds VK_KHR_synchronization2 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 20:26
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has added support for the prominent VK_KHR_synchronization2 extension introduced earlier this year...

DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Wayland Lands In Mesa 22.0's EGL Code

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 19:03
Landing in Mesa on Black Friday was DMA-BUF Feedback support within the EGL code as another important step forward for Wayland...

Loongson Posts Patch Series For Bringing Up LoongArch In GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 18:39
China's Loongson continues bringing up LoongArch processor support for Linux with this MIPS64-based ISA now seeing the complete patch series for review to enable the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

KDE Squashes Many "Annoying" Bugs As It Works To Improve The Desktop's Reliability.

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 18:12
KDE developers are trying to ensure the reliability of their desktop environment and thus they have recently begun a renewed effort on bug fixing. There is also talk of starting a KDE initiative focused on "15 minute bugs" for "embarrassing" issues that can be easily found within minutes. In any event, this week saw a lot of bug fixing in the KDE world...

Linux 5.16 Merges Fix For One Of The Intel Alder Lake Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 11/27/2021 - 06:12
Merged this Friday afternoon into the Linux 5.16 development kernel is fixing a performance issue affecting some Intel Alder Lake motherboards...

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