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RADV Hooks Up Image Compression Control To Workaround Game Bugs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 18:43
Samuel Pitoiset on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has wired up VK_EXT_image_compression_control support to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) in order to workaround same game bugs being encountered with Steam Play / VKD3D-Proton...

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q3 Released For Latest VA-API & QSV Code

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 18:22
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is where the company continues to stage their latest FFmpeg multimedia library patches prior to upstreaming. FFmpeg Cartwheel ends up containing all the latest and greatest code for leveraging VA-API and Quick Sync Video (QSV) from Intel integrated graphics through their latest DG2/Alchemist class discrete graphics...

Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 12:00
While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November...

Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" Opens For Development

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 06:28
The Ubuntu 24.04 codename has been revealed as "Noble Numbat" while kicking off this next development cycle that is all the more exciting due to being the next long-term support (LTS) release...

AMD-Powered Framework Laptop Now Working On Linux With Latest BIOS

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 03:48
Earlier this month Framework 13 began shipping out their AMD Ryzen powered modular laptop. Unfortunately though the launch-day testing of the Framework laptop under Linux was hampered by a BIOS issue. It's taken longer, but this week a new BIOS is now available for testing that resolves the AMD Linux graphics issue. Here's how to go about easily flashing the system BIOS with Fwupd and LVFS to get up and running well on Linux...

RadeonSI Completes ACO Compiler Support With Mesa 24.0

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 02:17
With the newly-started Mesa 24.0 development cycle a very exciting feature landed today... The ACO compiler integration for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has appeared to effectively wrap up for optionally making use of this Valve-developed shader compiler as an alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader back-end...

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