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Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Now Part Of Mesa's Default Drivers To Build

Phoronix - Wed, 09/01/2021 - 21:15
Intel's i965 classic DRI driver is still the default within Mesa for i965 through Haswell generations of Intel integrated graphics, but the new "Crocus" Gallium3D driver has been added to the default driver build list so it's now at least building by default on x86/x86_64 systems and thus trivial after that to override...

Linux 5.15 Hardware Monitoring Is Big But Overdue For AMD

Phoronix - Wed, 09/01/2021 - 21:00
The Linux 5.15 hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem changes were sent out and now merged for this next kernel version. Particularly notable this cycle is AMD catching up on some of their sensors support...

RadeonSI Enables DCC Stores For RDNA2 APUs To Squeeze Out More Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 09/01/2021 - 19:56
RadeonSI Gallium3D as the official AMD OpenGL Linux driver has mirrored the unofficial RADV Vulkan driver in enabling DCC stores support for RDNA2 APUs in the name of greater performance...

Wayland Protocols 1.22 Released With DRM Object Leasing Support For VR HMDs

Phoronix - Wed, 09/01/2021 - 18:56
Designed with VR headsets in mind, Wayland-Protocols 1.22 was released today and adds the DRM leasing protocol to its staging area...

XFS & EROFS File-Systems Have Big Changes For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Wed, 09/01/2021 - 18:07
In addition to Btrfs sporting new features with Linux 5.15, the XFS and EROFS file-systems also have some shiny new features and improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Linux 5.15 Power Management Changes Merged

Phoronix - Wed, 09/01/2021 - 17:55
The ACPI and power management changes have landed for the Linux 5.15 merge window...

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