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The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 23:15
Back during the Linux 6.3 kernel support for a number of legacy DRM drivers was removed and now patches have been volleyed for taking things one step further by now eliminating the infrastructure for supporting these older user-space mode-setting graphics/display drivers...

64-bit ARM Linux Kernel Against CPU-Specific Optimizations: "Pretty Unmaintainable"

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 21:47
While micro-architecture specific optimizations are rather common place within the Linux x86_64 kernel for various Intel and AMD CPU families with various performance tricks, the ARM64 Linux kernel maintainers are against introducing new micro-architecture specific optimizations as it affects new ARM processors...

NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux Driver Released With Source 2 Engine Fix On XWayland

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 21:45
Ahead of the US Thanksgiving holiday extended weekend, NVIDIA Linux engineers published their 545.29.06 Linux driver as the latest bug-fix release in the R545 series...

SiFive Gets Newer AMD Radeon GPUs Working On RISC-V

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 19:54
Thanks to AMD's Linux graphics drivers being open-source, they can be easily ported/adapted for new CPU architectures. For years older AMD Radeon GPUs have been working great on RISC-V such as shown in my HiFive Unmatched review back in 2021 with a Radeon graphics card in the PCI Express x16 slot. But newer AMD Radeon GPUs hadn't worked out-of-the-box due to AMDGPU's "DC" display code but that is changing with new patches from SiFive they are allowing the latest AMD GPUs to work on RISC-V...

wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 19:31
Released on Tuesday was a new version of wlroots, the Wayland compositor support library that was born out of the i3-inspired Sway compositor project. With this new release are new Wayland protocols, continued work on their Vulkan renderer, and the ability for the Wayland back-end to embed a wlroots compositor inside an existing Wayland client...

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