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Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 06/21/2024 - 01:15
Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors and newer. This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of OpenVINO...

Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon

Phoronix - Fri, 06/21/2024 - 00:36
While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September, the mainline Linux kernel support for this popular single board computer continues to lag behind the state of Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel. SUSE has been working to upstream various Raspberry Pi 5 driver support while now Raspberry Pi engineers have also begun the trek toward upstreaming their kernel graphics driver support...

GNOME Shell Accent Color Support Merged For GNOME 47

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 22:38
In addition to Mutter seeing Wayland DRM lease protocol support merged, another long-in-development patch series hit GNOME Shell this morning: accent color support!..

GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 22:11
Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland...

Intel Introduces New Gaudi "2D" Product Support To Their Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 18:30
It was just a few months back that Intel introduced a Gaudi "2C" variant of Gaudi2 to their open-source Linux driver. This variant might be for some export model or otherwise a hyperscaler/customer-specific revision or something along those lines. Now appearing within new Habana Labs driver patches for the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel are patches for a new Gaudi 2D variant...

GCC 12.4 Compiler Released With 84+ Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 18:18
For those continuing to rely on the GCC 12 series open-source compiler that was introduced as stable in 2022, GCC 12.4 is out today as the newest bug fix release...

Monochrome TV Mode Coming To Linux 6.11, Added By Raspberry Pi Developers

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 17:58
Another weeks worth of random DRM-Misc-Next changes have been queued ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 merge window...

Theseus Ship 6.1 Released For This KWinFT Evolution Now Based On KDE Plasma 6.1

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 17:45
Theseus Ship is the X11/Wayland compositor previously known as KWinFT developed by Roman Gilg as a fork of KDE Plasma's KWin. Pulling in patches from KWin in this week's KDE Plasma 6.1 release, Theseus Ship 6.1 is now available...

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