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Panfrost Driver For Linux 6.4 Adds Speed Binning, New MediaTek SoCs

Phoronix - Sat, 04/01/2023 - 00:00
The Panfrost DRM driver providing open-source kernel graphics driver support for modern Arm Mali graphics in various SoCs is seeing some new hardware support for the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle as well as now supporting speed binning functionality...

Vulkan 1.3.246 Released With VK_EXT_shader_object

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 20:58
Vulkan 1.3.246 has been published with one prominent new extension introduced that was started by Nintendo and worked on by several other hardware/software vendors...

Google Posts KVM-CPUFreq Driver To Dramatically Boost VM Performance, Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 20:30
Google engineers on Thursday posted initial "request for comments" patches on their KVM-CPUFreq driver that is part of their effort to improve the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling behavior and task placement within KVM-based virtual machines. This effort is leading to big improvements in raw performance and performance-per-Watt for tasks running within Linux VMs...

Sound Open Firmware 2.5 Released - Continues Adoption Of Zephyr, Adds MediaTek MT8188

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 19:00
Sound Open Firmware "SOF" 2.5 has been released as this open-source sound/DSP firmware initiative that was originally started by Intel but now is a Linux Foundation project and seeing hardware support from multiple vendors...

Bloomberg Launches Open-Source Funding Initiative

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 18:46
The Bloomberg financial, software, and media company has announced their FOSS Fund as a small step for helping open-source projects they rely on and of interest to their employees...

Fedora 39 Planning For RPM 4.19 - Adds x86-64 v2/v3/v4 Feature Levels

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 18:27
With the Fedora 39 release later this year the developers are planning on moving to RPM 4.19 as the newest version of their packaging format...

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