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SFrame Support Upstreamed To GNU C Library For Glibc 2.42

Phoronix - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 22:25
Merged today into the upstream GNU C Library code ahead of next month's Glibc 2.42 release is support for SFrame stack tracing with ELF binaries on x86 and AArch64 architectures...

NVMe Controller Data Queue "CDQ" Patches Posted For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 22:06
New feature patches posted for review today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working to implement the NVMe specification's Controller Data Queue (CDQ) functionality within the NVMe storage driver...

Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

Phoronix - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 21:01
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 4000 graphics processors...

RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 19:07
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioning are continued Vulkan Video improvements for AMD Radeon graphics...

Intel Mesa Drivers Add Option To Disable Xe3's Variable Register Thread "VRT" Feature

Phoronix - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 18:42
One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread "VRT" feature. Making use of Variable Register Thread can reduce register splitting, reduce bandwidth consumption, and improve overall performance. More background information on Intel VRT can be found in that aforelinked Phoronix article. But now the ability is coming to optionally disable VRT...

LMDE 7 Will Follow Linux Mint 22.2

Phoronix - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 18:30
The Linux Mint developers have put out their monthly status update to outline their work in recent weeks. Over the course of June, Linux Mint developers were primarily focused on Linux Mint 22.2 with the beta release expected soon...

Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available

Phoronix - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 18:17
Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...

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