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Open-Source Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers Add Double Buffer Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 03:03
Mesa's V3D and V3DV drivers providing open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver support, respectively, for newer Broadcom VideoCore hardware now has a double buffer mode implemented. This is a win for numerous workloads for these drivers most notably used by modern Raspberry Pi single board computers...

Qt 6.3 Alpha Released With New Qt Quick Compiler For Commercial Customers

Phoronix - Fri, 01/14/2022 - 20:23
The Qt Company just announced Qt 6.3 Alpha as the first formal test release for this next Qt6 toolkit update. The Qt Company also lifted the lid on their new Qt Quick Compiler where they are aiming for QML to run at "a speed close to native" for that interpreted language...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Planning To Stick With Linux 5.15 By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 01/14/2022 - 19:20
It turns out Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is planning to use the Linux 5.15 kernel as its default kernel. It makes sense in that Linux 5.15 is also a long-term support kernel, but unfortunate in that Ubuntu LTS releases haven't always used LTS kernel versions and v5.15 will be a half-year old already by the time the "Jammy Jellyfish" ships in April. This is a choice particularly unfortunate for those with recent hardware but at least there is the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA and other non-default options available...

Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Continues With Multi-Tile Preparations

Phoronix - Fri, 01/14/2022 - 18:45
In addition to Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers being quite busy preparing for upcoming Intel Arc "Alchemist" (DG2) graphics cards on the consumer side, they have concurrently been preparing for Xe HP "Ponte Vecchio" hardware too. One of the big undertakings on that side from the driver perspective is bringing up multiple tiles...

Linux 5.17 Mainlines Support For More Obsolete MIPS-Based Wireless Routers

Phoronix - Fri, 01/14/2022 - 18:23
While the MIPS CPU architecture itself is at the end of the road, kernel developers still are busy with MIPS considering the Loongson hardware that is popular in China and lots of older MIPS hardware out there lacking mainline Linux kernel support. For Linux 5.17 several more older, consumer-grade network routers are seeing mainline support...

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