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Broadcom Valkyrie/Viper VK Accelerators Set To See Mainline Support With Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Wed, 01/27/2021 - 05:53
For nearly one year Broadcom engineers have been working on Linux mainline drivers for their VK accelerators. Finally with the upcoming Linux 5.12 kernel the support is in place for those Broadcom Viper and Valkyrie accelerator cards...

Intel Announces Iris Xe Desktop Graphics For OEMs

Phoronix - Wed, 01/27/2021 - 00:32
Intel today announced Iris Xe (DG1) discrete graphics cards are coming to OEMs with ASUS and Colorful being among the initial partners...

NVIDIA 460.39 Linux Driver Brings RTX 30 Laptop Enablement, Improved 5.10+ Kernel Support

Phoronix - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 22:25
NVIDIA has released 460.39 as their latest stable Linux proprietary graphics driver build...

With Linux 5.12 Set To Boot On The Nintendo 64, The N64 Controller Driver Is Now Queued

Phoronix - Tue, 01/26/2021 - 20:45
A few days ago we wrote about Linux 5.12 to see support for the Nintendo 64 more than two decades after that MIPS-based video game console first shipped. While the practicality of Linux on the Nintendo 64 is particularly limited given only 4~8MB of RAM and the MIPS64 NEC VR4300 clocked under 100MHz, it's going upstream and now the N64 controller driver is also queued for this next kernel cycle...

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