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Vulkan Support Begins Landing For Wine's Wayland Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 11/18/2023 - 05:24
A few days ago the Wine Wayland driver merged HiDPI support improvements and now for ending out the week is yet more work to land for Wine's Wayland driver: the first bits of Vulkan enablement...

Intel Lands Vulkan Sparse Binding Support For ANV+i915 With Mesa 24.0

Phoronix - Sat, 11/18/2023 - 03:00
The most significant limitation of Intel Arc Graphics on Linux with the existing open-source driver stack has been the lack of sparse resources support that is needed for many newer games to work via Steam Play on Linux. Intel has a proper solution in place with their yet-to-be-merged Xe kernel driver while now for Mesa 24.0 their ANV Vulkan driver has landed an implementation that works with the existing i915 kernel driver...

Valve Updates Half-Life For 25th Anniversary - Adds Official Steam Deck Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/18/2023 - 02:52
This weekend marks 25 years already since Valve originally released Half-Life! In celebration of this milestone, Valve released today the Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update that now includes official Steam Deck support, Steam networking and controller support, updated graphics settings, and more...

Linux 6.7 Features Include Bcachefs, Stable Meteor Lake Graphics, NVIDIA GSP & More Next-Gen Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 11/18/2023 - 00:04
With the Linux 6.7 merge window having closed on Sunday, here's a recap of all the interesting new features to find with this new kernel. Linux 6.7 stable will be out either in the final days of 2023 or more than likely in the early days of next year.

Initial OpenACC Code Begins Landing In The LLVM Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 11/17/2023 - 23:02
As noted a few weeks back, NVIDIA is working to add OpenACC support to the upstream LLVM Clang compiler for this parallel computing standard. Today that work began landing in LLVM/Clang's development codebase...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Protected Memory Support

Phoronix - Fri, 11/17/2023 - 21:48
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa has added support for the protected memory feature available with Vulkan 1.1+...

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