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Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 03:15
The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments...

Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 23:49
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...

Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 23:30
One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for supporting the new Broadcom wired networking hardware at up to 800 Gigabit speeds...

LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched

Phoronix - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:40
The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...

GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:23
Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...

Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 20:48
While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too...

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