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VP9 Encoder & Other Media Functionality Of Tesla's FSD Chip To Be Upstreamed In Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 02:20
With the Linux 5.18 kernel reaching stable in the next week or two there is basic support for Tesla's FSD chip. That Samsung-based SoC for powering Tesla's full-self driving technology has the basic support pieces in place for this kernel while Samsung engineers are working on ironing out other portions of the SoC support for future kernel releases...

Vulkan 1.3.214 Released With New AMD Vendor Extension

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 01:40
Just one week after Vulkan 1.3.213 released with its four new extensions, which included an update to the ray-tracing support, Vulkan 1.3.214 is out today with various fixes while introducing just one new extension...

AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 05/17/2022 - 21:30
Last week AMD launched the Radeon RX 6650 XT / RX 6750 XT / RX 6950 XT models as RDNA2 refreshed for 2022 with higher clock speeds as an interim launch until RDNA3 graphics cards debut later in 2022. Up for Linux benchmarking today is a look at the Radeon RX 6750 XT open-source driver performance using an ASRock Challenger Pro Radeon RX 6750 XT 12GB.

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