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VKD3D 1.16 Released With DXIL Shader Support

Phoronix - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 19:16
VKD3D 1.16 was released today by Wine/CodeWeavers developers as this upstream Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation used by Wine for running D3D12 Windows games/applications on Linux...

Adaptive Sharpness Property Still Being Worked On For Intel Lunar Lake & Newer On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 18:22
Since last summer Intel open-source driver engineers have been working to make use of Lunar Lake's new adaptive sharpening capabilities under Linux. This is being done via a proposed DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences while the hardware capabilities within Lunar Lake equate to minimal power and performance costs when in use. The DRM sharpness property support still has yet to be mainlined but the newest iteration of the patches were posted on Monday...

Intel Enabling Platform Temperature Control Interface For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 18:08
Queued up within the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch is enabling support for the Intel Platform Temperature Control Interface...

More "Nova" Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Code To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 17:49
In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle, the modern, Rust-based Nova driver for future open-source NVIDIA GPU support is set to become a bit more full with this next kernel release...

Rust Abstractions For CPUFreq Prepped For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 17:32
More Rust programming language abstractions are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle to allow for more areas where Rust-based drivers can be created for the kernel...

New Patch Series Allows OverlayFS To Work With Casefolding

Phoronix - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 17:22
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet posted ap atch series today enabling use of the OverlayFS file-system in cojunction with an underlying file-system supporting case-folding for case insensitive files/folders/..

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