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Wine 8.6 Released With Bundled Musl Libc Math Library

Phoronix - Sat, 04/15/2023 - 04:22
Wine 8.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Lands Linux Audio Fix For Arc Graphics A750/A770

Phoronix - Sat, 04/15/2023 - 02:30
If you have been running a Linux 6.3-based kernel or later Linux 6.2 point release and have encountered your HDMI audio breaking when making use of Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 hardware, a fix is on the way...

An Early Look At Linux 6.4 Features: AMD CDX, AMD GAM, Intel LAM, Apple M2 & More

Phoronix - Fri, 04/14/2023 - 23:30
There is two weeks to go until the Linux 6.3 stable kernel is released, which could drag out to three weeks if last minute issues come about in the kernel. But given all the material queuing via the many "-next" code branches, we already have a good idea for many of the features in store for Linux 6.4...

Mesa OpenGL Threading Now Disabled For Small Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 04/14/2023 - 21:00
Landing today in Mesa 23.2-devel is support for big.LITTLE CPU detection or more broadly hybrid CPU core detection where little cores (e.g. E cores) are defined as having less than 50% the capacity of the largest CPU core on the system. This is done since Mesa's OpenGL threading is now being disabled for small hybrid processors...

OpenCL Shared Virtual Memory Comes To Mesa's Rusticl Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 04/14/2023 - 20:00
Mesa 23.1 enables RadeonSI Rusticl support while for next quarter's Mesa 23.2, which just started development, there is already a big ticket item for Rusticl: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

AMD SFH Linux Driver Adding Ambient Color Sensor Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/14/2023 - 18:46
AMD's Sensor Fusion Hub (SFH) driver with the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle is being extended to support new Ambient Color Sensor "ACS" functionality...

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