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AMD-Xilinx Publishes Open-Source "Nanotube" Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 02:20
AMD-Xilinx recently open-sourced their LLVM-based Nanotube compiler that can be used for some nifty networking purposes on FPGAs...

Fedora 38 Beta Performance Mostly Flat, Few Regressions

Phoronix - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 01:00
For those curious how the performance of Fedora 38 is looking ahead of its official release at the end of April, here are some preliminary benchmarks looking at the performance of this leading-edge Linux distribution as of the Fedora 38 Beta milestone last week. On both Intel Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake" and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X "Zen 4" desktop systems, the Fedora 37 performance was compared to that of Fedora 38 Beta.

VA-API's Libva 2.18 Released With Windows WSL D3D12 Support, Optional Disabling DRI3

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 23:30
Version 2.18 of the VA-API library, libva, has been released today for this Linux Video Acceleration API library that is used by the various driver implementations...

Turtle Beach REACT-R & Recon Xbox Controllers To Be Supported In Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 20:12
Turtle Beach gaming controllers will see support by the widely-used XPad driver with the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel...

QNX Support Restored For SDL3

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 18:50
When SDL3 development kicked off last November for this open-source library that is widely used by cross-platform games and other software, QNX support was removed alongside other old targets. Just months later, the QNX platform support is being revived...

Vulkan 1.3.245 Brings New NVIDIA Vendor Extension To Help Optimize Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 18:28
The Vulkan 1.3.245 extension is a small update to this industry-standard graphics/compute API with just a handful of issues resolved but it does introduce one new extension, which is a NVIDIA vendor extension aiming to further enhance Vulkan ray-tracing...

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