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Oracle Releases GraalVM 22.0 With New Features

Phoronix - Wed, 01/26/2022 - 04:26
GraalVM 22.0 has been released for this Java VM/JDK that also supports other programming languages and run-times / execution modes. GraalVM continues to be performant and showing promising results not just for Java with JIT'ing but also ahead-of-time Java compilation to Native Image as well as for its Python implementation, WebAssembly run-time, and other targets...

Initial Bits Land In Mesa 22.0 For Intel Raptor Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 01/26/2022 - 03:48
In addition to Mesa 22.0 landing Vulkan 1.3 support today with the Radeon RADV and Intel ANV Vulkan drivers, Mesa today also received initial support for next-gen Raptor Lake S processors...

Vulkan 1.3 Released With Dynamic Rendering In Core, New Roadmap Guidance For Modern GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/25/2022 - 22:00
It's crazy to think that in a few days it will already be six years since the debut of Vulkan 1.0, but here we are. The Khronos Group is continuing on their two year major update regiment for Vulkan and today debuting Vulkan 1.3 with more extensions moved to core as well as introducing a new "profiles" concept.

Open-Source Intel & Radeon GPU Drivers Ready With Day-One Support For Vulkan 1.3

Phoronix - Tue, 01/25/2022 - 22:00
For the just-announced Vulkan 1.3, the open-source Intel "ANV" and Radeon "RADV" Vulkan drivers within Mesa are prepared to land support for this updated specification...

NVIDIA Reportedly Close To Admitting Defeat In Arm Acquisition

Phoronix - Tue, 01/25/2022 - 19:14
According to a report this morning from Bloomberg, NVIDIA is communicating to their partners that they face the real possibility their deal to acquire Arm will not come to pass...

GNOME 42 Lands DRM Privacy Screen Support

Phoronix - Tue, 01/25/2022 - 18:33
Now that Linux 5.17 has prepared DRM privacy screen support, the GNOME 42 is ready with its user-space side support for making use of this new standardized interface...

NXP Continues Work On Linux Driver Bring-Up Of "Amphion" Video Encoder/Decoder

Phoronix - Tue, 01/25/2022 - 18:11
NXP engineers continue persevering for bringing up a mainline-suitable, open-source kernel driver for their Amphion video encoder/decoder hardware. Out today is their 15th revision to the Amphion driver patches...

Valve Rolling Out Dynamic Cloud Sync For Moving Between The Steam Deck & PC

Phoronix - Tue, 01/25/2022 - 17:32
Ahead of the Linux-based Steam Deck hopefully shipping around the end of February, Valve announced a new Steamworks feature called Dynamic Cloud Sync...

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