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CXL 2.0 Support Steps Closer To The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 22:28
So far for the virtual CES this week there hasn't been any big CXL 2.0 announcements since the Compute Express Link 2.0 specification was finalized back in November, but the Linux kernel support for this CPU-to-device interconnect continues coming together and will be hopefully mainlined in a coming release...

Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 22:07
The open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Gallium3D code within Mesa has wired up DRM shim support for basically faking the support in the absence of real hardware. This is mainly useful for testing the Nouveau OpenGL shader compiler code path without any actual code execution...

GTK 4.0.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes, Better Media Acceleration

Phoronix - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 19:16
Following last month's release of the big GTK 4.0 toolkit, GTK 4.0.1 is out as the first stable point release for this free software toolkit...

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