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More Rust Code Is Coming For Linux 6.14 Along With Hitting Another "Major Milestone"

Phoronix - Mon, 01/20/2025 - 20:04
For the Linux 6.13 cycle the Rust code was hitting a "tipping point" with more Rust kernel drivers expected soon. For Linux 6.14 there is indeed a lot more Rust code being primed for this next kernel version...

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q4 Adds Battlemage GPU Support

Phoronix - Mon, 01/20/2025 - 19:45
Intel software engineers overnight published their new quarterly release of the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel, the collection of the company's patches against this open-source multimedia library for enhancing the Intel GPU acceleration support while the patches work their way for upstream FFmpeg...

Many Scheduler Improvements Ready To Better Enhance The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 01/20/2025 - 19:37
Ingo Molnar sent out the big batch of scheduler enhancements bright and early today for helping kick off the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window...

Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Lands Ray Query Support

Phoronix - Mon, 01/20/2025 - 19:26
The "TURNIP" open-source Vulkan API driver within Mesa for supporting Qualcomm Adreno graphics is now able to expose accelerated ray query support for ray-tracing with newer Adreno GPUs...

Linux 6.14 Adding "STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN" To Address A Performance Pitfall

Phoronix - Mon, 01/20/2025 - 19:19
Among the VFS pull requests sent out this weekend in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window formally opening were the VFS direct I/O (DIO) updates that introduce a new STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN field for addressing a possible performance pitfall...

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