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KDE Plasma Mobile Is Beginning To Look Surprisingly Good

Phoronix - Sat, 10/12/2019 - 00:30
The KDE Plasma Mobile team has begun publishing weekly reports on their development efforts for making KDE software more suitable for mobile devices as well as convergence and other efforts in common with KDE on the desktop...

Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1

Phoronix - Fri, 10/11/2019 - 21:51
Back during the summer Eric Anholt who had been the lead developer of Broadcom's VC4/V3D graphics driver stack most notably used by Raspberry Pi boards left the company to join Google. In his place, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working with consulting firm Igalia to continue work on the DRM/KMS kernel driver and Gallium3D drivers for this open-source graphics driver support...

Intel Compute Runtime 19.40.14409 Adds "Early Support" Tiger Lake Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/11/2019 - 21:00
As written about a few days ago, Intel engineers added Gen12/Xe Tiger Lake support to their compute stack "NEO" for Linux users. That support has now made it into their latest weekly release of the Intel Compute Runtime...

Mir 1.5 Released With Bug Fixes & Wayland Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 10/11/2019 - 18:48
Canonical's developers continuing to advance the Mir display server that continues to be focused on providing an abstraction for Wayland support have issued a new feature release...

AMD Linux Driver Bringing BACO Support To Older Sea Islands / Volcanic Islands GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/11/2019 - 18:22
It's fairly rare these days seeing big patch sets out of AMD focused on improving the open-source Linux driver support for the likes of aging GPUs such as the Sea Islands and Volcanic Islands generations, but this Friday there is some notable development activity...

Intel's IWD Wireless Daemon Now Supports IPv6 Network Configuration Handling

Phoronix - Fri, 10/11/2019 - 18:05
Intel's open-source IWD wireless daemon that continues work on replacing WPA Supplicant is up to version 0.22...

A Deep Dive Into The Performance-Focused AMDGPU "Bulk Moves" Functionality

Phoronix - Fri, 10/11/2019 - 16:49
Recently on Phoronix you have likely heard a lot about the LRU "bulk moves" functionality for the AMDGPU driver after it was talked up by a Valve Linux developer for the performance help to Linux games and then the change landing in Linux 5.4 as a "fix"...

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