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Steam Deck Now Available For Immediate Ordering, Steam Deck Dock Also In-Stock

Phoronix - Fri, 10/07/2022 - 04:00
Valve has worked their way through the pre-orders and ramped up the production of the Steam Deck to the point that the reservation queue is over. You can now order your Steam Deck today in-stock and Valve has also made available the much anticipated Steam Deck Dock docking station...

Linux 6.1 Networking Brings WiFi EHT & MLO Preparations, New ASICs Enabled

Phoronix - Fri, 10/07/2022 - 01:30
The networking feature pull for the Linux 6.1 kernel brings 127k lines of new code and 50k lines of code removed as a rather hearty set of wired/wireless networking driver updates and core improvements this round...

AMD Continues Working Toward HDR Display Support For The Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 10/06/2022 - 23:00
One of the rather elusive items on the Linux desktop is High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support... There's been code in the works for years but across desktops and drivers, it's still a long-term effort getting HDR support on the Linux desktop. Even going back to 2016, with NVIDIA's cross-platform driver code the Linux desktop remained the bottleneck. There is at least some ongoing work to address this long-term issue with AMD this week presenting on the topic...

Rusticl Shows Great Start For Rust OpenCL In Mesa - Might Support SYCL In The Future

Phoronix - Thu, 10/06/2022 - 21:00
Merged last month into Mesa 22.3 was Rusticl as a Rust-written OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D that is beginning to work with the open-source Radeon Linux driver, the Intel "Iris" Gallium3D driver, and others. This is also the first Rust-written component within the Mesa code-base. Karol Herbst of Red Hat who has led Rusticl development presented this week in Minnesota on this promising cross-vendor OpenCL implementation that may also support SYCL in the future...

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