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Linux getrandom vDSO Implementation Updated, Glibc Patch In Testing

Phoronix - Sun, 11/27/2022 - 19:05
Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard fame has been working the past several months of adding getrandom() to the vDSO for achieving better performance and working the needs of user-space developers. Early results have been impressive and this week Donenfeld sent out the seventh iteration of these patches...

Sway 1.8-rc1 Wayland Compositor Brings More Secure Screen Lockers, Improved Vulkan Code

Phoronix - Sun, 11/27/2022 - 06:48
The first release candidate of the Sway 1.8 Wayland compositor is now available for testing...

Samsung's Latest Linux Upstreaming Work For The Tesla FSD SoC Is PCIe Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/26/2022 - 22:44
At the start of the calendar year Samsung engineers posted Linux patches bringing to enable the Tesla full self-driving "FSD" SoC within the mainline Linux kernel. Linux 5.18 picked up the initial Tesla FSD SoC support and since then other support remnants have continued to be worked on like media functionality. The latest open-source, upstream-focused Tesla FSD SoC work is on enabling PCIe functionality...

RADV Mesa Driver Lands Several NGG Stream-Out Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/26/2022 - 20:03
Open-source graphics driver engineer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux team landed a number of stream-out fixes this week for RADV's Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) Stream-Out handling...

Open-Source DRM Driver Sent Out For The "Good Old" Atari ST/TT/Falcon Systems

Phoronix - Sat, 11/26/2022 - 19:23
As we approach the end of 2022, an initial "request for comments" was sent out this week on a new open-source Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display driver for supporting Atari systems from the early 90's...

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