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Intel Linux Driver Wiring Up New "vRAM Self Refresh" Feature For Arc Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Thu, 05/19/2022 - 02:03
With the upcoming Linux 5.19 cycle appearing to be the point at which Intel's DG2/Alchemist Linux graphics driver support is settling down and may end up being the base version requirement for their forthcoming discrete graphics cards, we are seeing other non-core feature work happen for these Arc Graphics products. A new feature we've only seen mentioned today for the first time by Intel is "vRAM SR", short for vRAM Self-Refresh...

AMD Launches Xilinx + Linux Powered Robotics Starter Kit

Phoronix - Thu, 05/19/2022 - 02:00
AMD on Tuesday released the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit featuring a Xilinx Kria K26 System-on-Module and tailoring it for robotics, machine vision, and industrial communication/control use-cases while running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS...

VirtualBox On Linux Affected By Security Vulnerability Leaking Host Data To Guests

Phoronix - Thu, 05/19/2022 - 01:36
Security researcher Jason Donenfeld who is known for leading the development of the WireGuard open-source software has outlined a new security vulnerability affecting the Oracle VM VirtualBox software...

Arch Linux Installer Preparing FIDO2 Support For Handling Disk Encryption

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 21:30
The Arch Linux installer "Archinstall" that makes it simple to quickly and easily get this popular distribution installed has prepared a new release candidate where they are introducing FIDO2 support...

Linux Kernel Patches Posted For USB Support With Realtek RTW88 WiFi Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 20:00
Back in 2019 Realtek contributed the open-source "RTW88" WiFi driver to the Linux kernel for supporting their newer wireless chipsets on Linux. To date the mainline driver has just supported their PCI-based WiFi adapters while a patch series now out for review extends the driver to supporting their newer USB-specific chipsets...

Intel Releases SVT-AV1 v1.1 As It Continues Advancing Open-Source AV1 Encoding

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 19:03
It was just shy of one month ago that Intel and AOMedia released SVT-AV1 v1.0 and now Intel engineers have released SVT-AV1 v1.1 as the newest feature update to this CPU-based, open-source AV1 video encoder...

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