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Mesa 24.2.2 Enables Intel Lunar Lake & Battlemage Xe2 Graphics Out-Of-The-Box

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 08:35
Following the recently covered patches on Phoronix that enabled Intel Xe2 graphics out-of-the-box / by-default for Lunar Lake and Battlemage with the Mesa 24.3-devel Git code, Mesa 24.2.2 is out today in stable form that back-ports these Xe2 support changes...

KDE Again Operated At A Loss During 2023

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 08:22
KDE e.V. announced the availability today of their annual report for covering 2023. While they made a lot of accomplishments and worked a lot on KDE Plasma 6 development, it was another year they unfortunately operated in the red funding wise...

AmpereOne Performance On Linux 6.11 Kernel, 4K vs. 64K Page Size Comparison

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 01:30
Continuing on with the AmpereOne performance benchmarking while having the AmpereOne A192-32X in the lab within a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server, the next set of benchmarks is looking at the performance when using the near-final Linux 6.11 kernel. Additionally, quantifying the performance impact of using the ARM64 64K page size kernel as an alternative to the default 4K page size.

AMD Reveals Latest Plans For Open-Source openSIL With Replacing AGESA, Zen 6 Milestone

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 00:20
Last year to much excitement in our community was the new AMD project announcement of openSIL as an open-source CPU silicon initialization project that is an advancement for open-source firmware and to eventually replace AMD's AGESA across both client and server processors. This week an exciting new update on AMD OpenSIL was shared and that they are still on-track for having it production-ready next year...

FreeBSD 15 Might Drop Its AGP Driver For Old Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Thu, 09/05/2024 - 22:03
Ah the memories of old AGP graphics cards... But it's largely just that these days: distant memories. For anyone by chance still running an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) graphics card in production, FreeBSD is looking at deprecating its generic AGP driver and then potentially removing it in FreeBSD 15.0...

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