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AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland

Phoronix - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 22:41
With a few weeks having passed since the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release along with some point releases for addressing initial fall-out, I've been meaning to run some Plasma 6.0 Linux gaming performance benchmarks. I'll have up some interesting metrics soon using Fedora 40 while for this initial article is a look at the KDE Plasma 6.0 gaming performance between the Wayland and X11 sessions atop KDE Neon. Then similarly are the results for GNOME Shell with its X11 and Wayland sessions.

KDAB Working On Embedding Servo Web Engine Within Qt

Phoronix - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 21:54
Engineers at the KDAB consulting firm have begun experimenting with embedding the Rust-written Servo web engine inside Qt software using CXX-Qt...

SolidRun Launches Bedrock R8000 As First Industrial PCs With Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series

Phoronix - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 21:00
Following the launch last week of the AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series, SolidRun today announced the Bedrock R8000 as the first industrial PCs designed around these new Ryzen Embedded 8000 series SoCs...

RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 19:01
With the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle, the RISC-V architecture code is seeing kernel-mode FPU. This kernel floating point support is needed for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and particular its DCN display code. In turn this should allow recent AMD Radeon graphics cards to work on RISC-V with display support using the company's open-source driver stack...

RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1

Phoronix - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 18:53
It's been a long journey but Valve's Samuel Pitoiset has now enabled VK_EXT_shader_object support by default with Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for the upcoming Mesa 24.1 release...

Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems

Phoronix - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 18:48
DTrace used to be one of the Solaris features long sought after by Linux developers but over time the Linux kernel tracing capabilities have improved and Oracle has been supporting DTrace on Linux now for years without too much fanfare. DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 was released this past week as the latest iteration of this user-space implementation that builds off the Linux kernel tracing functionality like BPF...

Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 18:18
For those running the official Raspberry Pi OS on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 series single board computers, the Mesa V3DV Vulkan driver is now shipping by default to provide for a better out-of-the-box experience...

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