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Ray-Tracing Support For AMDGPU LLVM Back-End Lands For RDNA 2

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 06:38
AMD previously confirmed it would be supporting real-time ray-tracing with their next-generation GPUs while now one month out from the Radeon RX 6000 series debut are the first signs of the open-source driver work around GPU ray-tracing...

Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 05:05
Most information presented during the annual X.Org Developers' Conference doesn't tend to be very surprising or ushering in breaking news, but during today's XDC2020 it was subtly dropped that Arm Holdings appears to now be backing the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D driver...

Gamescope Continues Advancing As Wayland/Vulkan Compositor Backed By Valve

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 02:23
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais just provided an update during XDC2020 on the Gamescope compositor work as an evolution of Valve's prior "steamcompmgr" X11 window manager used by SteamOS...

Optional L1d Flushing On Context Switching Looks Like It Will Try Again For Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 02:00
The feature to provide opt-in flushing of the L1 data cache on each context switch looks like it will be coming with the Linux 5.10 cycle for this functionality providing security benefits but at the cost of further performance degradation...

Succeeding GNOME 3.38 Will Be "GNOME 40" - Yes, GNOME Forty

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 00:14
Following today's GNOME 3.38 release a new versioning scheme was announced whereby the next release in six months time will be GNOME 40.0...

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