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RADV Driver Lands Support For Vulkan Extended Dynamic State

Phoronix - Tue, 07/14/2020 - 09:08
The newest addition to Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver is support for the recently published VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state extension...

Radeon RADV+ACO Vulkan Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 20.2

Phoronix - Mon, 07/13/2020 - 22:10
With the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" recently switching its default to the ACO shader compiler back-end that is developed with the support of Valve rather than the existing AMDGPU LLVM back-end that is the official open-source AMD shader compiler solution, here are some fresh Linux gaming benchmarks of the RADV driver on the in-development Mesa 20.2 comparing the now-default RADV+ACO configuration against that of the RADV AMDGPU LLVM back-end.

systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247

Phoronix - Mon, 07/13/2020 - 21:39
With systemd 246 releasing soon, it looks like the new out-of-memory daemon will be merged shortly afterwards in allowing sufficient time for testing ahead of systemd 247...

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