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NVIDIA Contributes Much Less To The Linux Kernel Than Intel Or AMD

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 04:39
Yesterday I put together some statistics on the AMD vs. Intel contributions to the upstream Linux kernel during the 2010s, but a request coming in off that was how do NVIDIA's contributions compare. Here is a look at the NVIDIA contributions to the Linux kernel over the past decade...

Radeon RX 5600 XT With New vBIOS Offering Better Linux Performance Following Fix

Phoronix - Sat, 01/25/2020 - 02:20
Earlier this week AMD launched the Radeon RX 5600 XT and as shown in our Linux launch-day review it offers nice performance up against the GTX 1660 and RTX 2060 graphics cards on Linux with various OpenGL and Vulkan games. Complicating the launch was the last-minute change to the video BIOS to offer better performance, but unfortunately that led to an issue with the Linux driver as well as confusing the public due to the change at launch and some board vendors already shipping the new vBIOS release while others are not yet. Fortunately, a Linux solution is forthcoming and in our tests it is working out and offering better performance.

Linux 5.5 Ready To Shine With Navi Overclocking, Raspberry Pi 4 Support, Wake-On-Voice

Phoronix - Fri, 01/24/2020 - 20:45
Everything is aligning that the Linux 5.5 kernel is likely to be released this coming Sunday rather than being pushed off for another week of testing...

Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/24/2020 - 20:32
As more last minute work for the upcoming Mesa 20.0 is initial OpenGL tessellation support for Intel's OpenSWR driver...

Nsight Graphics 2020.1 Released With Profiling For Vulkan+OpenGL Interop

Phoronix - Fri, 01/24/2020 - 20:18
NVIDIA on Thursday introduced Nsight Graphics 2020.1 that to its profiling support can now handle OpenGL + Vulkan interoperability for games/applications making use of both APIs. While not many game engines / apps are yet using the likes of OpenGL 4.6 ARB_gl_spirv, Nsight is ready...

Arm Has Many Changes On Tap For Linux 5.6 From Spectre/Meltdown Bits To New RNG

Phoronix - Fri, 01/24/2020 - 17:03
While the Linux 5.5 kernel isn't even released yet, it's ideally coming out on Sunday should there not be a one week delay. But in any event Arm's Will Deacon has already sent in the pull request of the ARM architecture changes for Linux 5.6...

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