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AMD Sends Last Minute Fixes To Linux 6.0 For RDNA3 Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Fri, 09/30/2022 - 23:00
Linux 6.0 should be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last minute reservations and decides to extend the cycle by an extra week. AMD has sent in a last minute set of patches for their AMDGPU kernel driver with Linux 6.0 for dealing with what appear to be the upcoming RDNA3 graphics cards...

Intel Arc Graphics A750 + A770 Are Ready To Run On Open-Source Linux Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 09/30/2022 - 21:02
This week was word of the Intel Arc Graphics A770 launching for $329+ on 12 October, yesterday was the embargo lift on the Arc Graphics A750 also shipping on 12 Ocrober for $289+, and now today is another embargo lift concerning Intel Arc Graphics.....

Linux Mint Improving Its Driver Manager

Phoronix - Fri, 09/30/2022 - 20:42
The Ubuntu-based Linux Mint operating system has been working to enhance its Driver Manager utility for dealing with proprietary and other out-of-tree kernel hardware drivers...

Zink Enables OpenGL Threading For "Huge Perf Gains"

Phoronix - Fri, 09/30/2022 - 18:00
Recently the open-source AMD OpenGL driver "RadeonSI" enabled OpenGL threading by default for the "glthread" option that has long been opt-in on a per-game/app basis. Along with that has been a number of glthread-related improvements to this code that punts executing OpenGL calls to a separate CPU thread. The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has now unconditionally enabled OpenGL threading too...

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