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VirtIO-GPU Venus Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 08:24
Mesa's Venus driver provides Vulkan support for VirtIO-GPU since it was merged last year as a creation by Google. As of yesterday, the Venus driver has moved on to exposing Vulkan 1.3 capabilities...

Linux 6.1 Drops Old Driver For High Speed Serial / TTY Over IEEE-1394 Firewire

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 03:00
The staging changes for Linux 6.1 aren't particularly notable but of the code churn is lightening the kernel a bit by dropping the old "fwserial" driver that allows for TTY support over IEEE-1394 Firewire connections...

The Linux Kernel Looks To Drop Support For Intel's ICC Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 00:00
While LLVM Clang is increasingly being used by various developers and organizations for building the mainline Linux kernel as complementary support to the GCC compiler that has long been the predominant compiler target, Intel's ICC compiler has also been able to build the Linux kernel albeit not widely used. Kernel developers are now looking at removing that ICC compiler support...

NVIDIA 520.56.06 Linux Driver Released With OTA Updates For Proton/Wine NVIDIA NGX Build

Phoronix - Wed, 10/12/2022 - 22:08
With the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards shipping today, NVIDIA has published their first R529 series Linux driver with initial support for the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" graphics cards...

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