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An Open-Source Linux DRM Graphics Driver For The Atari Falcon

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 22:00
In addition to the OpenChrome DRM/KMS driver hoping to be finally mainlined in 2022 for supporting aging VIA graphics hardware from the long-ago days of their x86 chipsets, separately there is a DRM/KMS kernel driver in the works for something even older... A Linux DRM graphics driver for the Atari Falcon from the early 90's...

Intel Sends In More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 18:21
Intel this week submitted to DRM-Next what it anticipates to be the last batch of "drm-intel-next" feature changes for the upcoming Linux 5.20 merge window...

KDE Plasma 5.26 Eyes Using C++20 Features

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:42
KDE developers are looking at possibly making use of C++20 language features within the Plasma 5.26 desktop and the newer C++ usage could work its way to other KDE components with time too...

Cloud Hypervisor 25.0 Released For Intel-Backed, Rust-Written Linux/Windows VMM

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:25
Cloud Hypervisor as what started out as an Intel open-source project and now lives under the Linux Foundation umbrella as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) for use with Linux KVM and Windows MSHV is out with a new feature release...

Experiment Underway To Improve Gentoo's Binary Package Handling With Portage

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:18
Gentoo developer Andreas Hüttel "Dilfridge" is experimenting with binary Gentoo package hosting and finding out what improvements to Portage are needed for making it more of a reality at a larger scale...

Intel's ANV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier - Important For VKD3D-Proton

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:05
Following last week's release of Vulkan 1.3.219 that introduced the VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier extension and Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) adding support for it earlier this week, Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" has landed support for this new extension to close out the week...

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