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GIMP 3.1.2 Released As First Step Toward GIMP 3.2

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 21:05
GIMP 3.1.2 was just released as the first development version on the road toward GIMP 3.2 stable...

Fair DRM Scheduler Looking Good For Better Fairness & Scheduling Of GPU Clients

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 20:55
Being worked on for a while has been a "Fair" DRM scheduler inspired by Linux's CFS scheduler and aiming for better performance and scheduling behavior between multiple GPU interactive clients sharing GPU resources...

UEFI SBAT Support Coming Together Ahead Of Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 20:40
Support for UEFI Secure Boot Advanced Targeting "SBAT" looks like it could be buttoned up in the mainline kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle...

RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 18:29
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension...

AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 18:00
Over the past three days the new AMD "GFX1250" GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

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