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AMD Preps More GPU Driver Fixes For Linux 6.14, Cleaner Shader For RDNA2 dGPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 21:54
On Friday AMD sent out another round of patches that are destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

Intel Xe Driver Adding "RPa" Frequency Reporting With Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 20:07
This week Intel engineers sent out a number of kernel graphics driver pull requests of new code for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle. In addition to the UHBR for Panther Lake and lower Alchemist GPU power use with whitelisted GPUs and fixing old Intel Haswell era graphics platforms, on Friday another (smaller) pull request was sent in for the modern Xe kernel driver...

GNOME Image Viewer Now Editing JPEGs, Other GNOME 48 Progress

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 19:45
GNOME 48 is moving along with the GNOME 48 Alpha packages due this weekend followed by the beta in early February. GNOME 48 is still making good progress in its goal to release on 19 March...

Sony Proposes Changing LLVM Clang Default To C++20 Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 19:33
Sony engineers are proposing that the LLVM Clang compiler changes its default C++ mode from C++17 to C++20. This coincides with Sony planning to soon upgrade their PlayStation 5 compiler downstream to C++20 by default...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Bringing A More Consistent Close Button, Other Last Minute Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 19:13
This week brought the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta as well as a number of last minute feature changes for this desktop update due for release in February...

Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 09:37
Merged this Friday night for Mesa 25.0 is initial Vulkan Video AV1 decode support for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...

Wine 10.0-rc5 Brings Another 31 Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 05:53
Wine 10.0 is working its way toward a stable release likely in the next week or two, but today there is Wine 10.0-rc5 with the latest round of fixes...

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