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AMD Adds Radeon Memory Visualizer Support For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 06/14/2022 - 00:30
AMD's Radeon Memory Visualizer "RMV" tool from their GPUOpen initiative has allowed better understanding video memory usage with Windows across multiple APIs. In citing the "rising popularity of gaming on the Linux OS", AMD has now enabled Linux support for this tool...

FreeDesktop.org GitLab Service Restored

Phoronix - Mon, 06/13/2022 - 22:15
After battling Ceph storage issues and related problems for the past day after two solid-state drives failed, the FreeDesktop.org GitLab that is used for the centralized, coordination of the open-source Linux graphics driver development and other open-source software is back online...

With A Few Lines Of Code, AMD's Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Mon, 06/13/2022 - 18:13
A patch from AMD to further tune the Linux kernel's scheduler around NUMA imbalancing has been queued up and slated for introduction in Linux 5.20. For some workloads this scheduler tuning can help out significantly for AMD Zen-based systems and even on Intel Xeon servers has the possibility of helping too...

GNOME's Mutter Working On "Max BPC" Handling To Deal With Monitor Issues

Phoronix - Mon, 06/13/2022 - 17:48
GNOME developers are working on supporting the Linux KMS "Max BPC" connector property that is supported by some of the Direct Rendering Manager drivers for limiting the maximum bits per color permitted. In turn properly supporting this setting can take care of monitor issues seen on some systems where the monitor may randomly flicker or have other issues unless otherwise lowering the refresh rate or resolution...

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