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Updated AMDGPU Firmware Published To Deal With A Possible VCN Hang

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 02:39
In addition to the AMD Zen 1/2/3 updated CPU microcode and long-awaited NVIDIA Ampere GPU signed firmware being merged today into linux-firmware.git, new AMD graphics firmware was also merged this morning for dealing with a hang with the VCN block under certain situations...

Arch-Based EndeavourOS "Apollo" Released

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 00:06
For those looking for an easy-to-use flavor of Arch Linux, EndeavourOS continues in this area of being a robust desktop-minded Linux distribution powered by Arch. Out today is EndeavourOS "Apollo" as its newest ISO of this rolling-release distribution...

NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally Allow Accelerated Open-Source Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/11/2022 - 19:35
Days after new open-source kernel driver code appeared in a Tegra code drop, NVIDIA happens today to have published signed firmware images for their RTX 30 "Ampere" graphics processors for finally allowing open-source driver support to proceed for these latest-generation GPUs...

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