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Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 21:00
Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...

GNOME's Papers App Lands Better Annotations Experience

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 20:44
For those making use of GNOME Papers as the increasingly popular document viewer app for the GNOME desktop, a major rework was merged to enhance the annotations experience...

Intel's Clear Linux Rolls Out Software Packaging Bundle Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 18:47
Intel's Clear Linux distribution has made some packaging improvements to help better suit the needs of its users...

Linux 6.16 Lands Support For EcoNet MIPS Platforms

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 18:30
While there isn't much new MIPS activity taking place due to other CPU architectures like RISC-V and LoongArch taking the interest away, the MIPS code within the Linux kernel does continue seeing enhancements as well as upstreaming of hardware that has long been relegated to downstream kernels...

Initial USB Audio Offloading Code Merged For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 18:21
Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.16 kernel by way of the USB/Thunderbolt branch was the massive set of patches (12k+ lines of code) for USB offload support for audio devices...

KDE Prepares For Plasma 6.4 Debut With Better VRR Experience

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 18:08
KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday. Plus there has been plenty of early work building toward Plasma 6.5...

Hierarchical Constant Bandwidth Server "HCBS" Posted In Aiming To Replace RT_GROUP_SCHED

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 17:50
Posted as a request for comments this week were the initial Linux kernel patches for the Hierarchical Constant Bandwidth Server (HCBS)...

New AMD-SBI Code Merged For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 04:40
New AMD code merged today to the mainline Linux 6.16 kernel that's in-development is the introduction of the AMD-SBI driver/subsystem for primarily benefiting EPYC server platforms. AMD-SBI is for their Side-Band Interface also known as the Advanced Platform Management Link (APML)...

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play

Phoronix - Sat, 06/07/2025 - 04:22
Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D...

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