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Linux 6.0 Has Temperature Monitoring For Upcoming AMD CPUs, MWAIT For HPC Customers

Phoronix - Mon, 08/01/2022 - 21:30
Among the early pull requests for the now-open Linux 6.0 merge window (nee Linux 5.20) are a few AMD additions worth mentioning...

Mesa's Radeon R600g Driver Adds NIR Support For Pre-Evergreen GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 08/01/2022 - 19:00
Merged in early July to Mesa 22.2 was the rewritten R600g NIR back-end for improving older AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000 series graphics cards on Linux with this open-source OpenGL driver. That NIR code was limited to "newer" Radeon GPUs supported by the R600g driver while now it's been extended for supporting pre-Evergreen GPUs too...

Unvanquished 0.53 Released For This Leading Open-Source FPS Game

Phoronix - Mon, 08/01/2022 - 18:00
Released on Sunday was Unvanquished 0.53 Beta as the latest in a long string of betas for this one of the most promising open-source first person shooter (FPS) games...

Linux 6.0 To Continue Advancing Its Random Number Generator (RNG)

Phoronix - Mon, 08/01/2022 - 17:49
In addition to being busy leading WireGuard, Jason Donenfeld continues working heavily on the Linux kernel's random number generator (RNG) code. For Linux 6.0, a number of RNG improvements are ready...

GNU Linux-libre 5.19-gnu Released - Continues The Uphill Battle Against Firmware Blobs

Phoronix - Mon, 08/01/2022 - 17:32
Following yesterday's release of Linux 5.19 stable the FSFLA folks maintaining the GNU Linux-libre kernel released their downstream version that strips out support for loading proprietary kernel modules as well as stripping out drivers/support that requires non-free/closed-source microcode/firmware files...

Linux 5.20 Likely To Be Called Linux 6.0

Phoronix - Mon, 08/01/2022 - 17:18
In case you missed it in yesterday's Linux 5.19 announcement and to avoid reader questions/confusion in the days ahead, just making it loud and clear here: what was referred to as the Linux 5.20 kernel in development will most likely be called Linux 6.0...

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