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Apple M1 Open-Source GPU Bring-Up Sees An Early Triangle

Phoronix - Sat, 01/23/2021 - 02:36
The open-source/Linux Apple M1 work continues to be quite busy this week... The latest is Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been working on reverse-engineering the M1 graphics processor has been able to write some early and primitive code for rendering a triangle...

Alex Gosselin - Linux Journal

Google News - Sat, 01/23/2021 - 01:31
Alex Gosselin  Linux Journal

Linux 5.12 Set To See Support For The Nintendo 64

Phoronix - Sat, 01/23/2021 - 00:38
It's taken nearly twenty five years but the mainline Linux kernel this year will be able to boot on the Nintendo 64 game console... It's looking like the Nintendo 64 support will be merged with the upcoming Linux 5.12 kernel...

More Intel Graphics Work In Linux 5.12: Gen7 Improvements, Faster Suspend/Resume

Phoronix - Fri, 01/22/2021 - 21:04
New feature material for Linux 5.12 continues getting ready ahead of the merge window opening in February to formally kick off the cycle...

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.24 Released With A Ton Of Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 01/22/2021 - 20:44
In addition to Oracle's GraalVM 21.0 being released this week, the Eclipse Foundation has released OpenJ9 v0.24 as the newest feature release for their high performance JVM...

Chrome 89 Preparing To Ship With AV1 Encoder For WebRTC Usage

Phoronix - Fri, 01/22/2021 - 19:14
Now that Chrome 88 released, attention is turning to Chrome 89 of which an interesting technical change is the enabling of AV1 encode support within the web browser...

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