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AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Firmware Upstreamed

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 21:00
The last piece of the open-source driver equation for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 "RDNA3" series support on Linux is now properly upstream...

RADV Vulkan Driver Making Progress On Portal RTX Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 19:23
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is making progress on being able to run the new Portal RTX game...

Call Depth Tracking Coming To Linux 6.2 To Help Recover Performance On Skylake-Era CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 19:09
The work by Intel engineers the past few months on Call Depth Tracking as a less costly mitigation for Retbleed on Skylake-era processors is now set to be merged for the Linux 6.2 kernel...

Linux 6.2 Introducing Dedicated VFS POSIX ACL API

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 18:49
Microsoft's Christian Brauner has reached the finish line on his work to create a proper VFS POSIX Access Control List (ACL) API with the code now being merged for Linux 6.2...

Linux 6.2 Working More On WiFi 7, 800 Gbps Networking, Protective Load Balancing

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 18:27
The big batch of networking subsystem feature updates for the Linux 6.2 merge window has landed...

X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To New Round Of Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 18:07
The X.Org Server and XWayland have new releases out ahead of the holidays, but it's not for Christmas feature releases and instead for fixing a number of new security issues...

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