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Turnip Vulkan Driver Picks Up Geometry Streams To Support DXVK's Direct3D 10.1

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 19:30
We haven't heard much of traditional Linux gaming on any ARM-powered Qualcomm notebooks as it would rely on the likes of Hangover for running Windows x86_64 games on ARM, but the Turnip Vulkan driver within Mesa has a necessary feature for now being able to run DXVK with the Direct3D 10_1 (v10.1) feature level...

GCC 11's x86-64 Microarchitecture Feature Levels Are Ready To Roll

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 19:06
The Linux x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels have taken shape this year for different feature/performance levels based on a CPU's capabilities. Both LLVM Clang 12 and GCC 11 are ready to go in offering the new x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, and x86-64-v4 targets...

AMD Linux Driver Seeing Support For New Fine Grain Clock Gating Ability

Phoronix - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 18:51
AMD mentioned Fine-Grain Clock Gating as one of the new features for the Radeon RX 6000 series with "Big Navi" but it will also be present with the next-gen Van Gogh APU too. The Linux driver patches for bringing up FGCG are under review...

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