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AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 Released With Various Fixes, TMZ For RDNA2 & Newer

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 20:55
It's been nearly one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q1.2 as AMD's latest open-source Vulkan driver code drop while today it was replaced by AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 as what will likely be their last Vulkan driver update for the quarter...

Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 20:30
The US and western government sanctions around the Russian government and its defense industry/companies due to their war in Ukraine has caused interesting issues in the open-source world. A few days after ipmitool was archived/suspended on GitHub that turned out to be due to the current maintainer's affiliation with a Russian tech company, separately there is now a blocking of Linux kernel contributions from selected Russian developers...

NVIDIA Improving wlroots For Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 18:51
A NVIDIA engineer has opened up a merge request to improve the wlroots Wayland library so compositors based on it can enjoy better gaming performance for dual-GPU systems, namely around laptops sporting a discrete NVIDIA GPU but can help other GPU hardware/drivers too...

Qualcomm Publishes Open-Source Compiler & User-Space For Their Cloud AI Accelerator

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 18:19
Last month Qualcomm published updated patches for their Cloud AI 100 kernel driver to support this inference accelerator. The Qualcomm engineers said at the time that their user-space driver and associated compiler would be published shortly. That panned out and the user-space portion of this open-source AI inference stack was recently published...

Qt 6.4.3 Released With 300+ Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 17:59
Qt 6.4.3 is out today as the newest point release to this current stable series of the Qt6 tool-kit. This release is another big one with 300+ fixes in tow...

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