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Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 22:00
Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards. The B580 went on sale in December and we've been busy testing the B580 on Linux since while today the embargo expires on the Arc B570 with those graphics cards going on sale this morning. Here is a first look at the Intel Arc B570 graphics and compute performance under Linux with their latest open-source drivers.

AMDGPU VirtIO Native Context Merged: Native AMD Driver Support Within Guest VMs

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 21:43
An exciting change was just merged into Mesa 25.0 that has been about two years in the making... AMDGPU native context support for VirtIO to allow for using native OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers within guest virtual machines for better performance...

Fedora KDE Plasma Edition Aims To Appeal To Multimedia Enthusiasts & Content Creators

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 20:03
Back in November it was decided that the Fedora KDE Desktop Spin would be promoted to the same tier as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation. Fedora KDE as an "Edition" status for Fedora 42 will now be on the same level as Fedora Workstation Edition. More details on those Fedora KDE Edition plans have now come to light...

AT_EXECVE_CHECK Submitted For Linux 6.14 To Help With Consistent Security

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:55
In anticipation of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening next week if Linux 6.13 releases as expected this coming Sunday, Google engineer Kees Cook has already sent out pull requests to Linus Torvalds of new feature code he's been aligning for the v6.14 cycle. One of the interesting pulls is the introduction of the AT_EXECVE_CHECK flag to the execveat call...

CXL Address Translation Support For AMD Zen 5 Sees Linux Patches

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:48
A set of Linux kernel patches posted by AMD engineers last week are working on enhancing the CXL address translation support between the HPA decoder and system physical memory addresses. These patches get that CXL address translation support working for the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" Zen 5 server processors...

Expanding Web Camera Support Among Newer Intel Laptops Planned For Fedora 42

Phoronix - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 19:13
Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede wrote a blog post a few days ago around the Intel IPU6 and newer web camera support still being a challenge on Linux. While various Intel IPU6 open-source code has been upstreamed, there remain differences with a number of laptops currently available still not working out-of-the-box for web camera support on Linux. Hans de Goede has now initiated a change proposal for Fedora 42 to take care of more Intel web camera issues...

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