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AMD Driver Lands DCC For Multi-Plane Formats With RDNA4, Tiling For Video Buffers

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 21:55
More RadeonSI Gallium3D changes worth mentioning have landed today in Mesa 25.1 Git for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack...

Intel Graphics Driver With Linux 6.15 To Allow Tuning The GuC Power Profile

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 19:51
Following the various Intel graphics driver feature updates sent out earlier this week in building up the new kernel graphics/display driver features for Linux 6.15, another prominent pull request was sent out yesterday with additional material...

FineIBT-BHI Looks To Be Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.15 To Provide Tougher Kernel Defenses

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 19:30
FineIBT-BHI as a means of tougher kernel defenses for fending off Branch History Injection (BHI) looks like it will be ready for upstreaming in next month's Linux 6.15 merge window...

Mesa's Vulkan WSI Now Supports Wayland Color Management

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 19:17
Adding to the flurry of open-source work recently around the merged Wayland color management protocol for supporting HDR, the Mesa Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) code has added support for this protocol...

Spectre Mitigations Being Worked On For BPF Programs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 19:08
A "request for comments" patch series sent out on Monday is working on Spectre mitigations for BPF programs using speculation barriers...

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