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Commercial-Only Qt 5.15.3 LTS Now Released As Open-Source

Phoronix - Thu, 03/03/2022 - 22:30
One year ago this week Qt 5.15.3 LTS was released with 200+ bug fixes for this toolkit but that long-term support release was made commercial-only. Today The Qt Company has made available an open-source release of the Qt 5.15.3 changes...

OpenBLAS Deciding Whether To Drop Support For Russia's Elbrus CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 03/03/2022 - 22:00
OpenBLAS recently added support for Russia's Elbrus E2000 processors, however, the OpenBLAS developers are now debating whether to drop support for these Russian domestically-produced CPUs given Russia's invasion into Ukraine...

Intel Prepares More DG2/Alchemist & Xe HP Driver Improvements For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Thu, 03/03/2022 - 20:47
Intel's big open-source Linux graphics driver engineering team has submitted their last feature pull of new material for inclusion into the upcoming Linux 5.18 kernel. Intel engineers remain very busy on the discrete GPU enablement both for the DG2/Alchemist Arc graphics cards as well as the forthcoming compute accelerators...

Intel's Idle Linux Driver Finally Seeing Xeon Sapphire Rapids Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/03/2022 - 20:27
While much of Intel's Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" enablement has been squared away for a while now within the Linux kernel and related components, there are a few holdouts only now coming about in patch form and working their way to the mainline kernel with Sapphire Rapids production ramping up in the coming months...

Linux 5.18 Will Speed Up Some FBDEV Operations By 6x, ASpeed AST2600 DRM Code Added

Phoronix - Thu, 03/03/2022 - 19:12
Another round of drm-misc-next changes has been sent in to squeeze into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.18 merge window opening later this month...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Preparing Gang Submission Interface

Phoronix - Thu, 03/03/2022 - 18:31
The AMDGPU Linux kernel driver is preparing a new interface for allowing user-space to submit work to the GPU that will be executed across multiple engines simultaneously...

VMware Enabling VMWGFX 3D Support For AArch64

Phoronix - Thu, 03/03/2022 - 18:06
VMware engineers are in the process of enabling 3D acceleration within their VMWGFX driver on AArch64 so those making use of VMware virtualization software on 64-bit Arm will be able to enjoy accelerated 3D guest virtual machines...

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