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UWP'ed Mesa Running On Microsoft Xbox, Allowing For New Game Ports With OpenGL

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 19:40
Recently there has been out-of-tree successes on adapting Mesa to work on Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP). UWP is also used by the Microsoft Xbox Series X/S game consoles and in turn paired with the Microsoft D3D12 driver work within Mesa for allowing OpenGL and other APIs atop D3D12, is allowing new games/software to be ported to the Xbox...

Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 19:24
Vulkan 1.3.279 debuted on Friday with many fixes/clarifications to the specifications plus one new extension...

AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 18:00
Back in 2020 AMD rolled out a video mode optimization for FreeSync on Linux, continued being revised in 2021, FreeSync Video mode then attempted by default in 2022 but then was reverted and then only last year FreeSync Video enabled by default. But now come Linux 6.9, the feature appears to be effectively retired...

WavPack Lossless Audio Compression Format Adds Multi-Threaded Encode/Decode

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 16:00
The WavPack open-source lossless wavefile compressor is up to version 5.7 after more than one year in development. Making this new release quite notable is adding multi-threaded encode and decode support to the WavPack library and its CLI tools...

Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 13:00
Should you be running nine or more GPUs per system, the Mesa 24.1 release next quarter will raise the limit of 8 DRM devices for the Vulkan API per system to now allow a theoretical 256 GPUs per system...

Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 08:37
With Steam on Linux use for January clocking in at 1.95%, I was very eager to see if the February results would once again surpass the 2.0% threshold... Unfortunately, it moved in the opposite direction...

Intel Makes Open-Source Its Python NPU Acceleration Library

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 00:45
Intel has made open-source its NPU Acceleration Library (intel-npu-acceleration-library) as a user-space library for Windows and Linux systems for interfacing with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found initially on their new Meteor Lake laptops...

Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D

Phoronix - Sat, 03/02/2024 - 00:20
It looks like the new Panthor DRM driver will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel now that it made it into drm-misc-next today. In turn the Mesa 24.1-devel code has landed support for this newer Arm Mali graphics into the Panfrost Gallium3D driver...

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