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Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 09:37
Merged this Friday night for Mesa 25.0 is initial Vulkan Video AV1 decode support for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...

Wine 10.0-rc5 Brings Another 31 Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 05:53
Wine 10.0 is working its way toward a stable release likely in the next week or two, but today there is Wine 10.0-rc5 with the latest round of fixes...

Experimental Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" v2 Patches: I/O Throughput Lower By 70%

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 03:17
Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation "ASI" for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities. Last summer there were some new "request for comments" patches working on Linux Address Space Isolation and today a second iteration of those RFC patches were published. They are now out for review but they are unlikely to see much use: the I/O throughput as measured by FIO takes a 70% hit...

Git 2.48 Released With Initial Support For The Meson Build System

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 02:40
Git 2.48 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading distributed version control system...

More Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest Enablement Merged For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 01:02
Squeezing into the mainline Linux 6.13 kernel code today as part of the latest batch of "fixes" are two additional enablement bits for the upcoming high-density Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest server processors...

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