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Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Driver Posted For Linux Kernel Review

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 22:31
The latest work that Raspberry Pi is working to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel is a HEVC/H.265 video decode driver that works on Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers...

Curl Drops Support For Hyper Rust HTTP Backend Citing Little Demand

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 21:44
The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this portion of the code...

AdaptiveCpp 24.10 Delivers More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 19:48
AdaptiveCpp 24.10 is out today as this implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs across hardware vendors. This compiler for C++ heterogeneous programming models has tacked on more features and additional performance optimizations with this update...

GNOME User Sharing Ported From C To Rust, libadwaita Adds Adaptive Preview Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 19:21
It's not only KDE seeing nice improvements ahead of the holidays but GNOME developers were also busy this week preparing new improvements to their open-source desktop stack. There's been some rather exciting changes on the GNOME front as we prepare to cap off the year...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Improving Game Controller Joystick Support, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 18:58
While the Christmas holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain busy working on new features for the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop as well as continuing to land many bug fixes...

AMD ROCm 6.3.1 Released With Instinct MI325X Support, ROCm Runfile Installer

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 09:47
Building off the ROCm 6.3 release from earlier this month, there's been a Friday night drop of ROCm 6.3.1 with some rather exciting end-of-year improvements...

Wine 10.0-rc3 Released With A 16 Year Old Bug "Fixed"

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 09:21
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 10.0 is now available for testing with another 15 bugs fixed this week...

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