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Microsoft's Hyper-V DRM Display Driver Will Land For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Thu, 06/10/2021 - 00:05
Last summer Microsoft engineers posted a DRM kernel display driver for their Hyper-V synthetic video device. One year later after going through a few rounds of code review, this Hyper-V DRM driver will be going mainline with the upcoming Linux 5.14 kernel cycle...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 21:00
Last week the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review embargo lifted while today NVIDIA has lifted it on the RTX 3070 Ti ahead of the official availability tomorrow. Here are the initial Linux gaming benchmarks looking at the performance of the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti up against the rest of the GeForce RTX 20 and RTX 30 series GPUs as well as AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series competition.

Khronos Standards Group Launches Certification Program To Help You With Online Shopping

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 21:00
When it comes to new specifications/certifications from The Khronos Group for royalty-free open standards we are used to very low-level interfaces with exciting innovations like Vulkan and glTF but today they are doing something rather different and announcing a 3D Commerce Viewer Certification Program...

Fedora 35 Looking To Use Yescrypt For Hashing User Passwords

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 19:00
Adding to the list of planned improvements for Fedora 35 is switching to make use of Yescrypt for hashing of user passwords...

AMD Releases AOMP 13.0-3 For Their Latest Radeon OpenMP Offload Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 17:34
The latest work happening on AMD's Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) front is a new release of AOMP, their LLVM Clang downstream focused on carrying the latest patches around Radeon OpenMP offloading support...

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