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Linux 5.18 Features Include Many AMD & Intel Additions, Tesla FSD Chip, Other Changes

Phoronix - Mon, 04/04/2022 - 21:30
With Linux 5.18-rc1 released last night the merge window is now over for feature work on Linux 5.18. So as usual here is my feature overview of all the changes for Linux 5.18 that caught my eye and were interesting for this kernel that is working its way towards the stable debut by late May.

AMD Acquiring Pensando For $1.9B USD

Phoronix - Mon, 04/04/2022 - 20:22
It was just two months ago AMD completed its acquisition of Xilinx and now its newest data center play is entering into a definitive agreement to acquire Pensando...

Gentoo Linux Back To Spinning A Weekly LiveGUI DVD/USB ISO

Phoronix - Mon, 04/04/2022 - 18:56
To complement their minimal install images and various stage archives produced, the Gentoo project has restarted the process to also begin producing a LiveGUI DVD/USB image as a more friendly first encounter with this Linux distribution...

Mesa 22.1 Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands Ray Primitive Culling

Phoronix - Mon, 04/04/2022 - 18:26
Over the past month we have seen more open-source Radeon Vulkan ray-tracing support build up inside Mesa 22.1 with KHR_ray_query support merged, missing stubs that at least allow Doom Eternal to get further along with its ray-tracing code path, and now there is ray primitive culling that has landed...

Fedora Project Leader Calls Out NVIDIA Over Their Proprietary Linux Drivers

Phoronix - Mon, 04/04/2022 - 18:14
Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller took to Twitter on Sunday with a long series of tweets of his personal opinion going after NVIDIA's proprietary driver stack and encouraging the company to be more like Intel and AMD with regards to open-source driver support...

DDC/CI Linux Driver Continues To Be Worked On For Managing Monitors

Phoronix - Mon, 04/04/2022 - 17:57
A Linux driver for the DDC/CI control protocol for modern displays (well, even many of those going back to ~2005) has been available out-of-tree while finally there has been recent work on getting this driver upstreamed into the kernel...

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