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AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 22:20
AMD's GPUOpen team has released HIP RT 2.4 as the newest version of this open-source ray-tracing library built atop their HIP interface...

vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 22:04
Linux 6.11 introduced the getrandom() in the vDSO support for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. Initially that was focused on Linux x86_64 while for Linux 6.12 is ported to five more architectures...

Linux 6.12 Adding HDMI CEC Driver For A 4K HDMI Splitter/Amplifier

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 20:47
The media subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. Notable this cycle is a new HDMI CEC driver for a 4K HDMI splitter/amplifier for those looking for a device that can be controlled from within Linux using the HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) specification...

Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 18:40
Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13. That RISC-V laptop motherboard has yet to be officially released but Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling the DeviceTree support so Linux can boot on this upcoming board...

Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 18:29
The Servo open-source browser layout engine has supported making use of the Firefox Devtools code for the provided web developer tools such as the HTML web page inspector and browser console. But that support had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, thanks to a useful Outreachy project, the code has been updated and now working nicely with the newer Devtools code...

FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 18:20
Following Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 video encoder support being merged into the FFmpeg library, the latest improvement for this open-source multimedia API when leveraging Vulkan is implicit DRM synchronization...

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