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D7VK Aims To Deliver Direct3D 7 Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 23:18
DXVK is an important piece of Steam Play (Proton) that over time expanded to supporting Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and even D3D8 too. Meanwhile VKD3D-Proton delivers Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan. Now there is a fork of the DXVK project working to bring Direct3D 7 support atop Vulkan...

Linux To Gain ML-DSA/Dilithium Post-Quantum Cryptography For Module Signing

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 22:06
New code likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel would introduce ML-DSA/Dilithium post-quantum cryptography to be initially used for dealing with kernel module signing...

Microsoft Contributing "RAMDAX" Driver For Upcoming Linux 6.19 Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 19:23
A new driver planned to be sent to the mainline Linux kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window is yet another new contribution from Microsoft...

Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 19:01
Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification. Besides a number of documentation clarifications/corrections, there is one new extension this week in the name of AI / machine learning...

Mesa Lands Fixes For HDR With Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 18:47
Merged overnight to Mesa 26.0-devel and likely to be back-ported for the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release are a few fixes around high dynamic range (HDR) support within the common Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) / display code...

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