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NVIDIA R520 Linux Driver Being Prepped For Release With New GPU Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/11/2022 - 07:30
This should come as little surprise with the GeForce RTX 4090 series releasing this week as the first Ada Lovelace GPUs, but NVIDIA is releasing a new feature branch driver for Linux users...

VirtualBox 7.0 Released - Full VM Encryption Support, Direct3D Acceleration Using DXVK

Phoronix - Tue, 10/11/2022 - 06:30
It's been a long time since last having anything significant to report on for Oracle's VM VirtualBox software: VirtualBox 6.0 debuted in 2018 and VirtualBox 6.1 in 2019, but since has been rather quiet... But out today is now VirtualBox 7.0 with big features like support for full virtual machine encryption and a new Direct3D 11 based graphics stack, which for Linux use is now going through DXVK...

Linux 6.1 Perf Adds AMD CPU Cache-To-Cache & Memory Reporting Capabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 10/11/2022 - 03:30
The "perf" kernel subsystem for Linux with the perf performance analyzing tool has picked up some new AMD processor capabilities for Linux 6.1...

AMD Platform Management Framework Merged For Linux 6.1 With Many Laptop Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/11/2022 - 02:20
The platform drivers x86 updates were merged a few days ago for the Linux 6.1 kernel. Most notable is the introduction of the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) while there are also a number of laptop driver updates too as part of this feature update...

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