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Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 06:28
On top of Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics bringing other media engine improvements and much better 3D graphics support, another exciting element of the next-generation Intel graphics is now confirmed: GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding!..

Linux Developers May Discuss Allowing Rust Code Within The Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 04:45
A Google engineer is looking to discuss at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference the possibility of allowing in-tree Rust language support...

Progress Being Made On OpenCL+OpenGL Over Direct3D 12

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 03:31
There is an update on the porting effort led by Collabora and Microsoft for layering OpenCL and OpenGL on top of Direct3D 12...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Released For Open-Source Benchmarking, New Docker Benchmarking Image

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 01:37
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 is available today as the latest quarterly stable feature release to our open-source, cross-platform benchmarking software.

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