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Intel Posts SVM Patches For Xe Kernel Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 17:58
Intel's new Xe kernel graphics driver is set for merging into Linux 6.8 as an experimental option. While it's being added to the next kernel cycle, it's not yet used by default for any existing Intel GPUs and its features have yet to be fully implemented and the performance has yet to be fully optimized. Among the features currently missing is Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support but a patch series posted today aims to address that functionality...

Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut

Phoronix - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 17:38
The Bcachefs file-system has landed some additional fixes ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.78 stable release...

Intel Improves FFmpeg's DNN Detect Filter For AI Object Detection

Phoronix - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 17:21
With AI being all the rage these days and each vendor working on getting their wares to market with AI acceleration, besides Intel now having out their Meteor Lake CPUs that feature their Intel AI Boost (NPU), Intel is rather positioned well with their prolific open-source software contributions. One of the AI-related software contributions over the past week has been improvements to the FFmpeg multimedia library's "DNN detect" filter for object detection within videos...

GRUB 2.12 Bootloader Brings SDL2 Support, Boot Loader Interface

Phoronix - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 04:48
GRUB 2.06 was released back in June of 2021 and today it's finally been succeeded by... GRUB 2.12. This latest GRUB stable release has been a long time coming but it's finally out before the new year and it's packing many features for this widely-used open-source bootloader...

KDE Plasma 6 Beta 2 Released For Testing

Phoronix - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 04:17
For those with some extra time on your hands around the holidays, the second beta of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop along with KDE Gear applications and KDE Frameworks 6.0 is now available for testing...

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