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Valve Implements Opt-In VK_KHR_present_wait For Mesa Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 11/24/2022 - 23:00
Landing this week within Mesa 23.0 is an initial implementation of Vulkan's VK_KHR_present_wait extension, which Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team and VKD3D-Proton notoriety has referred to as a "very useful" extension but due to current spec limitations is for now only being made opt-in via a DriConf option so it can be handled on a per-game/app basis...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Patches Already Surfacing For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 11/24/2022 - 20:20
It was just last week that Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 flagship SoC and thanks to their work with Linaro engineers, there are already patches under review for enabling this high-end Snapdragon chipset for the mainline Linux kernel...

Mesa 22.3-rc4 Brings Many Fixes, Official Release Now Expected Next Week

Phoronix - Thu, 11/24/2022 - 20:05
Mesa 22.3 had been expected to release this week but instead Mesa 22.3-rc4 was issued and in turn the v22.3 introduction is now expected for next week...

Stratis 3.4 Released As The Latest Open-Source Linux Storage Work From Red Hat

Phoronix - Thu, 11/24/2022 - 19:51
Red Hat is out this week with a new version of Stratis, its Linux storage solution built atop XFS and LVM that is intended to provide features and functionality akin to ZFS and Btrfs but with the proven reliability of XFS...

Qt Creator 9 Released With Experimental Squish Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/24/2022 - 19:32
The Qt Group today announced the release of Qt Creator 9 as the newest feature release to this open-source Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment...

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