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Linux 6.0-rc2 Released

Phoronix - Mon, 08/22/2022 - 08:55
Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 6.0-rc2 as the newest weekly test candidate for this next major kernel series...

R600 Gallium3D Driver Receives NIR Backend Fixes For Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Series

Phoronix - Sun, 08/21/2022 - 21:17
In addition to the R300g driver seeing new shader optimizations, also being merged this week to Mesa 22.3 were some fixes for the recently-introduced new NIR back-end for the Rade R600 Gallium3D driver for the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series...

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Sees Uptick In Activity This Week

Phoronix - Sun, 08/21/2022 - 21:05
The open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" being developed for Mesa has seen a busy week of new development activity on this work-in-progress solution...

R300 Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Sees New Optimization For Two Decade Old ATI GPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 08/21/2022 - 19:25
Thanks to being open-source, the Mesa R300 Gallium3D driver that is used for supporting OpenGL on the ATI Radeon 9500/9600/9700/9800 series up through the Radeon X1000 "R500" series has seen a new set of performance optimization work twenty years after the R300 GPUs first shipped...

Cloud Hypervisor 26.0 Released With SMBIOS Improvements, Unified Binary For MSHV/KVM

Phoronix - Sun, 08/21/2022 - 18:12
Cloud Hypervisor 26.0 released this week as the newest version of this Rust-based hypervisor focused on cloud workloads and secure computing. The open-source Cloud Hypervisor started out as an Intel software project and continues to be led by them while now under Linux Foundation stewardship and continuing to see contributions from the likes of Arm and Microsoft...

Meteor Lake Support Lands Within The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC"

Phoronix - Sat, 08/20/2022 - 19:17
Intel's open-source Linux bring-up for Meteor Lake continues. The latest open-source patches on the Meteor Lake front are for the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) changes for these 14th Gen CPU graphics...

Mesa Zink Improvements For OpenGL-On-Vulkan Reportedly Make It Faster Than Radeon OpenGL

Phoronix - Sat, 08/20/2022 - 18:25
The latest Mesa 22.3-devel code for Zink's OpenGL on Vulkan implementation has hit an important milestone with the latest code refactoring: it looks like this OpenGL implementation atop the Vulkan API with the RADV driver is beginning to outpace AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver providing native OpenGL support for Radeon GPUs...

KDE's Dolphin Gets A Dedicated Selection Mode, Full-Screen Mode For Elisa

Phoronix - Sat, 08/20/2022 - 17:51
KDE developers had another busy summertime week adding more features to their open-source desktop environment...

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