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Linux 5.6 Kernel Adds New System Call For "openat2" - More Extensible openat()

Phoronix - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 00:48
A new system call added to the very feature rich Linux 5.6 kernel is openat2() for more extensible behavior compared to the existing openat() functionality...

There Is Experimental Patches Providing Support For DXIL Shaders With VKD3D

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 23:49
The Wine project's VKD3D initiative for translating Direct3D 12 support to Vulkan took another step forward today with patches for handling DXIL (Shader Model 6.0+) shaders with VKD3D, but the work in the current form may need to be re-worked...

Mesa 20.0's RADV Driver Deems Navi/GFX10 Stable, Vulkan 1.2 In Good Shape, ACO Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 22:55
With Mesa 20.0 scheduled for branching today (though that could be delayed a few days potentially depending upon last minute requests), there's been a flurry of Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver activity to squeeze into this first Mesa release series of 2020...

GTK4 Data Transfer APIs Being Modernized Around Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 21:49
Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has provided an update on one of the latest areas the GTK developers are working on finishing up with the forthcoming GTK 4.0 tool-kit... Improving the data transfer interfaces around handling for copy/paste and drag-and-drop...

We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 20:49
LibreOffice 6.4 is out today as the latest feature update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite...

Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 20:10
While developers are hard at work on Godot 4.0 with Vulkan support, that release won't be ready until mid-2020 so as a result Godot 3.2 is out today as their latest stable release and serving as a "long-term support" release until transitioning to Godot 4...

The Linux 5.6 x86 Platform Driver Changes Are Busy From Quirky Laptops To New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 18:05
Intel's Andy Shevchenko sent in the x86 platform driver updates on Monday for the newly opened Linux 5.6 merge window. There is the never-ending work on dealing with quirky Windows-focused laptops to adding new Intel hardware support and other additions...

Clang 10 + Linux 5.6 Will Be Able To Build A Working s390 Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 17:06
With LLVM Clang 9.0 and Linux 5.3 together it became possible to build the mainline Linux kernel with this non-GCC compiler. The x86_64 Linux kernel Clang-based kernel builds has continued to improve through newer kernel releases. This follows the mainline AArch64 (64-bit ARM) Linux kernel mainline build by Clang too, which has been of much interest by different hardware/software vendors. There hasn't been much Clang'ing kernel efforts for other architectures, but it turns out with Clang 10 and Linux 5.6 will be another working combination, this time for IBM s390...

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