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Vulkan 1.2.140 Released With New Extensions For Private Data, Custom Border Color
Vulkan 1.2.140 is out as the latest version of the Vulkan API for high performance graphics and compute. Besides the usual assortment of documentation clarifications/fixes, this round does bring two new extensions...
Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks - The Next Platform
Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks The Next Platform
Firefox 77 Nightly Adds Initial AV1 Image File Support (AVIF)
Exciting times in Mozilla land as in addition to the recent Wayland improvements along with Flatpak availability and WebGPU support coming together, the newest Firefox Nightly builds now have AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) support...
GNU C Library Adds Detection Support For Zhaoxin CPUs
For the x86_64 Zhaoxin CPUs made in China and based on VIA Centaur IP there is now proper support for them within the GNU C Library...
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance On Mesa 20.1 Looking Good With RADV+ACO
Since its mainlining in Mesa 20.0, the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has been helping to reduce game load times and often increasing overall Linux gaming performance both for native titles as well as those on Steam Play with Proton+DXVK/VKD3D. With Mesa 20.1 releasing in the coming weeks, here are some recent benchmarks showing the RADV+ACO performance on Mesa 20.1-devel compared to RADV using its default AMDGPU LLVM back-end.
FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Still Being Prepared For The Linux Kernel
For a number of months now Google engineers have been working on FSCRYPT inline encryption capabilities for EXT4 and F2FS. The work is designed to offer better encryption performance on modern SoCs by having the encryption/decryption happen within the block layer as part of the bio and in turn leveraging the inline encryption hardware on modern Arm SoCs. The work still isn't merged but looks like it could be getting closer...
Freescale Ethernet Driver Unlocks A Big Performance Improvement
The Freescale "FEC" Ethernet driver used by select i.MX SoCs will be seeing better performance on the next kernel release...