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Steam Beta Now Honors KDE & GNOME Global Scaling Factor

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 05:00
Today's Steam client beta will be a delight for some Linux gamers with the Steam client finally recognizing the GNOME and KDE desktop global scaling factor for text sizing...

AMD openSIL Will Eventually Replace AGESA, Supporting Both Client & Server CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 22:40
For those that haven't yet watched the AMD openSIL presentation from the OCP Regional Summit in Prague from April, the most interesting takeaway was deserving of its own article... AMD openSIL is planned to eventually replace the well known AGESA and that it will be supported across AMD's entire processor stack -- just not limited to EPYC server processors as some were initially concerned but will support all AMD processors...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Increases Instruction Heap - Fix For Overwatch

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 22:00
Intel's ANV open-source Vulkan driver has increased its instruction heap size to 2Gb in order to address a hang experienced with the game Overwatch while this is also likely to help other software/games moving forward...

AMD Virtual NMI Support For KVM Virtualization Merged Into Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 20:25
Going back to mid-2022 AMD engineers have been working on Virtual NMI support with SVM for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) as an efficiency optimization. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel the AMD VNMI support has been merged...

Linux 6.4 Closes The Door On Intel Thunder Bay

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 18:35
While Intel Thunder Bay sparked rumors years ago as potentially being a mix of Intel x86 cores and Movidius VPU cores, although the Linux patches put it as ARM cores paired with the Movidius VPU, Thunder Bay is no more. As I wrote back in March, Intel Linux engineers have acknowledged Thunder Bay is cancelled and there are no end-customers/users so they are going ahead and removing the Linux support...

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