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Vulkan 1.2.164 Released With Valve's Extension For Helping Direct3D 12 Implementation

Phoronix - Tue, 12/08/2020 - 00:00
Vulkan 1.2.164 is out today with the usual assortment of documentation fixes/clarifications plus two new extensions...

OpenRGB 0.5 Released With Support For More Devices

Phoronix - Mon, 12/07/2020 - 22:51
While most hardware vendors don't support Linux to the extent that any products with configurable RGB lighting controls will officially be supported, OpenRGB has been one of the successful community projects for allowing many different devices to enjoy configurable, cross-vendor. and open-source RGB lighting controls...

A Look At Linux 5.10 + Mesa 21.0-dev On Intel "Tiger Lake" Xe Graphics

Phoronix - Mon, 12/07/2020 - 22:01
For those that may find their hands on an Intel Tiger Lake laptop this holiday season with the "Gen12" Xe Graphics, here are some Linux OpenGL/Vulkan benchmarks in varying driver configurations if you are left wondering whether it makes sense upgrading your kernel or Mesa for better performance...

Webboot Is Becoming Quite Useful For Quickly/Easily Booting ISOs From The Web

Phoronix - Mon, 12/07/2020 - 21:03
The Webboot project has been in development now for more than one year as an easy means of booting Linux ISO images from the web. From this minimal boot environment users can configure their network connection and download a new ISO or use a pre-existing ISO. From there Webboot allows kexec'ing into that ISO for booting it up...

Tencent Updates Their "Direct Memory File-System" Proposal For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 12/07/2020 - 19:47
Back in October there were engineers from Tencent proposing DMEMFS as the "Direct Memory File-System" for Linux. DMEMFS is about reserving some RAM that is not managed by the kernel to avoid that overhead and in turn expose it directly to virtual machines in the cloud. Those initial DMEMFS kernel patches have now been updated by Tencent as they continue working to get this functionality into the Linux kernel...

Linux 5.9.12 Is In Good Shape With The AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series

Phoronix - Mon, 12/07/2020 - 16:37
With my testing of the Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards last month it's been off Linux 5.10 (aside from when using the Radeon Software for Linux package driver) due to the Linux Git state often offering the best performance and features particularly for brand new hardware. As mentioned in the launch day article for the RX 6800 / RX 6800 XT, there was also an issue being encountered on Linux 5.9. Fortunately, that bug is indeed fixed with the recently released Linux 5.9.12 kernel...

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