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Intel's VA-API Library LibVA 2.11 Released With Support For Protected Content

Phoronix - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 03:55
Intel's VA-API library (libVA) is out with a new end-of-quarter release for this open-source Linux video acceleration interface...

AMD Sends Out New Linux Code For SEV-SNP With EPYC 7003 Series

Phoronix - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 01:50
In addition to AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors offering fantastic performance, another important highlight for these new Zen 3 server processors is SEV-SNP for upping the Secure Encrypted Virtualization capabilities. AMD has been offering SEV "Secure Nested Paging" patches via a GitHub repository while now they are working towards mainlining this feature for the Linux kernel...

AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead

Phoronix - Thu, 03/25/2021 - 01:00
While the RadeonSI Gallium3D open-source OpenGL driver for Linux systems is very well received and generally outperforming the proprietary AMD OpenGL driver on Linux/Windows and performing very strong against NVIDIA's proprietary OpenGL driver too, it's not game over for this older graphics API and AMD is still working to lower the CPU overhead even further for this open-source code...

GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 03/24/2021 - 23:25
The big GNOME 40 desktop update is now available...

AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 for Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 03/24/2021 - 22:48
AMD today released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 driver packages for Windows and Linux systems...

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