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Linux 6.11-rc7 To Fix A "Massive Performance Regression" For AMD Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 18:58
Sent out today were the DRM fixes for 6.11-rc7 ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc7 kernel being released on Sunday. As usual most of the changes revolve around the AMDGPU and Intel i915/Xe drivers plus random fixes to the smaller drivers. There is one change though with the AMD Radeon graphics driver side worth highlighting to address a performance regression affecting recent kernels...

It's Taken Until 2024 To Add FreeBSD To X.Org Continuous Integration Testing

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 18:48
It's taken until now to add FreeBSD to the X.Org Continuous Integration (CI) automated testing so that all proposed changes to the X.Org Server can now be build-tested on FreeBSD rather than just Linux...

FEX 2409 Highlights Some Of The Challenges Of Emulating x86 On RISC-V

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 18:40
FEX 2409 has been released for this open-source project that's known for allowing x86_64 Linux binaries -- including both games and applications -- to run rather well on AArch64. It's also been working on enabling x86_64 programs on RISC-V but there due to architectural differences it's more of a challenge than with ARM...

Oracle Rewrites Libresource For Standardized API Of Linux System Resource Information

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 18:17
Back in 2018 Oracle introduced Libresource as a standardized API for accessing system resource information around memory / network / device statistics and other metrics. Libresource v2 was announced this week as largely a rewrite of the project...

Mesa 24.2.2 Enables Intel Lunar Lake & Battlemage Xe2 Graphics Out-Of-The-Box

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 08:35
Following the recently covered patches on Phoronix that enabled Intel Xe2 graphics out-of-the-box / by-default for Lunar Lake and Battlemage with the Mesa 24.3-devel Git code, Mesa 24.2.2 is out today in stable form that back-ports these Xe2 support changes...

KDE Again Operated At A Loss During 2023

Phoronix - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 08:22
KDE e.V. announced the availability today of their annual report for covering 2023. While they made a lot of accomplishments and worked a lot on KDE Plasma 6 development, it was another year they unfortunately operated in the red funding wise...

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