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Chrome 112 Released With WASM Garbage Collection Trial, CSS Nesting

Phoronix - Wed, 04/05/2023 - 05:20
Google today promoted the Chrome 112 web browser to their stable channel on all supported platforms...

RADV Lands Shader Caching For Graphics Pipeline Libraries

Phoronix - Wed, 04/05/2023 - 04:55
Ahead of hopefully enabling the RADV Vulkan Graphics Pipeline Libraries "GPL" support by default for this quarter's Mesa 23.1 release, the RADV driver has now landed on-disk shader caching support for GPL libraries...

CentOS Hyperscale SIG Now Has An Intel-Optimized Repository

Phoronix - Wed, 04/05/2023 - 02:00
The CentOS Hyperscale special interest group that is focused on providing new packages and features atop CentOS Stream for use by hyperscalers like Meta and Twitter have now established a "hyperscale-intel" repository for Intel-optimized packages...

System76 Teases Their "Virgo" In-House Manufactured Laptop

Phoronix - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 23:35
While for a number of years now System76 has manufactured their own Thelio desktop line of Linux PCs from their facility in Denver, Colorado (and their Launch Keyboard), they have long talked up ambitions for eventually manufacturing their own Linux laptops rather relying on other white-label manufacturers as they currently do. Today a first glimpse of their in-house laptop prototyping was shared,..

Intel Posts Xe DRM Scheduler Patches For Review

Phoronix - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 21:30
As part of the process for getting Intel's new Xe DRM kernel driver upstreamed as the eventual replacement to the existing i915 driver for Gen12 graphics hardware and newer, Intel engineers on Monday posted the initial Xe DRM scheduler patches that have been separated out to get review on them, figure out what can be common/shared among drivers, and get those bits upstreamed...

Updated NVIDIA Turing Firmware Published For Open-Source Nouveau Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 20:33
NVIDIA has published updated NVIDIA TU10x /TU11x "Turing" GPU firmware to support newer RTX 20 hardware revisions and fix outstanding issues affecting the open-source Nouveau driver...

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