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Linux 6.1 To Feature Faster Intel Memory Error Decoding

Phoronix - Wed, 10/05/2022 - 03:40
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver updates have been submitted and merged for the Linux 6.1 merge window of which there are a few notable additions on the Intel side...

Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Continues Improving

Phoronix - Wed, 10/05/2022 - 02:25
RADV driver co-founder Bas Nieuwenhuizen of Google presented at today's X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC 2022) on the state of this open-source Mesa Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance...

Radeon ROCm 5.3 Released With New APIs, Fine Grain Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/05/2022 - 02:05
Officially released today is Radeon ROCm 5.3 as the newest version of AMD's open-source compute stack for Radeon and Instinct hardware...

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan "NVK" Driver Continues Progressing

Phoronix - Wed, 10/05/2022 - 01:40
As written about for several months on Phoronix, an open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver has been in the works that by the end of the summer this "NVK" driver has been seeing a lot of activity by Jason Ekstrand of Collabora along with David Airlie and Karol Herbst of Red Hat. Jason today talked at XDC 2022 about this NVK driver effort...

Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display

Phoronix - Tue, 10/04/2022 - 23:16
Intel laptop users running Linux are being advised to avoid running the latest Linux 5.19.12 stable kernel point release as it can potentially damage your display...

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