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Patches Posted For Review Adding COBOL Frontend To GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Sat, 12/14/2024 - 01:20
The COBOL programming language may be 65 years old since its original release but the mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in 2025 might finally see upstream support for it...

Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Linux Workstation Graphics Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2024 - 23:20
Yesterday I shared the Linux gaming performance and OpenCL / GPU compute performance for the new Intel Arc B580 Battlemage graphics card. Today the focus is a look at how well the Linux workstation graphics performance for Battlemage is looking relative to the existing Alchemist hardware with the Intel Arc A-Series graphics cards.

VKD3D-Proton 2.14 Released With New Features For D3D12 On Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2024 - 21:59
Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14 as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 implementation built atop the Vulkan API for Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Ship With The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2024 - 19:48
This shouldn't be too surprising especially after Canonical's commitment last year to always ship the latest upstream kernel version for Ubuntu releases moving forward, but the plan was confirmed today that Ubuntu 25.04 intends to ship with the Linux 6.14 kernel...

Intel Looking To Raise SPIR-V Backend To Becoming An Official LLVM Target

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2024 - 19:35
The SPIR-V target within the LLVM compiler for outputting to this common IR used across different accelerator/device types, different APIs from Vulkan and SYCL to GLSL / OpenCL / HLSL, and adapted for a variety of innovative use-cases could soon become an official target within LLVM...

GNOME 48 Mutter To Enjoy Improved Cursor Scaling For Wine Wayland & More

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2024 - 19:21
Merged this week to GNOME's Mutter compositor for the GNOME 48 release is support for the wp_viewport protocol for cursor surfaces in order to provide a nicer experience on cursor scaling...

Intel Panther Lake & Clearwater Forest Power Management Patches For Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Fri, 12/13/2024 - 19:06
Intel engineer and Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki queued up several power management related patches this week for Intel's upcoming Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors as well as the next-gen Xeon Clearwater Forest processors...

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