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Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Inches Closer To OpenGL 4.6 Conformance, More Games Working

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 23:42
While there has been less major progress to report on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-over-Vulkan code in recent weeks, Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve and others continue optimizing and fixing this increasing useful implementation. Most recently the game Bioshock: Infinite is running on Zink and there are more fixes in aiming toward OpenGL 4.6 conformance...

AMD Posts Latest Revision To Its New P-State Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 23:13
In early September AMD posted their new "amd-pstate" CPU frequency scaling driver for Linux that leverages ACPI CPPC data available with Zen 2 and newer processors for making wiser frequency scaling decisions. The goal of AMD P-State is to offer better performance-per-Watt and today they have posted a new revision of this driver...

RadeonSI Lands Yet Another Round Of Optimizations That Further Reduce CPU Overhead

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 20:50
Well known AMD open-source OpenGL driver developer Marek Olšák has landed another big batch of patches to further lower the driver overhead of this Linux OpenGL driver...

Intel's i965 Mesa Classic OpenGL Driver Will Stick Around A Bit Longer

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 20:15
Earlier this year was talk of finally retiring the Intel "i965" Mesa classic OpenGL driver along with the rest of the "classic Mesa" driver code now that it's been replaced by the Crocus Gallium3D driver and the other open-source Mesa OpenGL divers all using the modern Gallium3D architecture. Those plans are still on but shifting now into 2022...

X.Org Server Bids Farewell To Autotools

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 18:49
With X.Org Server 21.1 having finally shipped this week, the X.Org Server Autotools build system support has been killed off...

Improved Retpoline Code Staged Ahead Of Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 17:45
A set of patches improving the return trampoline "Retpoline" code used for Spectre V2 mitigations has made its way into tip.git's "objtool/core" staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.16 merge window...

Wayland 1.20 Planned For Release In December

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 17:20
It's been nine months since the release of Wayland 1.19 while now release plans have been drafted for Wayland 1.20...

Games Relying On CEG DRM Should Now Be Able To Run With Steam Play

Phoronix - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 16:28
Running the newest Steam client beta paired with the newest Proton Experimental should yield more Windows games working on Steam Play with Linux...

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