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While AMD officially supports a much narrower range of more recent Radeon hardware with their official graphics drivers for Windows (and Linux - as it pertains to their Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver and AMDVLK official Vulkan driver), thanks to the open-source community around AMD's open-source driver code there are always nifty things that come about... As I wrote about earlier this year, an independent developer has been striving to bring Vulkan to the Radeon HD 6000 series. Yes, the 13 year old "Northern Islands" graphics processors...

Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon ... - Phoronix

Google News - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 04:34

Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon ... Phoronix

Amazon's Fire OS for Smart TVs and tablets may drop Android for a new Linux-based OS - Liliputing

Google News - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 04:13

Amazon's Fire OS for Smart TVs and tablets may drop Android for a new Linux-based OS Liliputing

AMD Closing In On IOMMU SVA Support For Linux - Phoronix

Google News - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 03:29

AMD Closing In On IOMMU SVA Support For Linux Phoronix

AMD Closing In On IOMMU SVA Support For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 03:29

The IOMMU changes for Linux 6.7 aren't particularly noteworthy besides adding SMMUv2 support for the Qualcomm SDM670 and SM7150 SoCs. But the IOMMU updates also take the kernel one step away from supporting Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) on AMD platforms in the near future...

Ubuntu Core Linux Developer Preview is ready for testing - ZDNet

Google News - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 02:32

Ubuntu Core Linux Developer Preview is ready for testing ZDNet

RX 6800 XT is Faster Than RX 7800 XT in Linux Gaming - Tom's Hardware

Google News - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 02:22

RX 6800 XT is Faster Than RX 7800 XT in Linux Gaming Tom's Hardware

Valve Announces The Steam Deck OLED With Upgraded Display, 6nm APU & Larger Battery

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 01:56

Valve just announced the Steam Deck OLED as an upgraded version of their Steam Deck handheld Linux gaming device...

Valve Announces The Steam Deck OLED With Upgraded Display ... - Phoronix

Google News - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 01:56

Valve Announces The Steam Deck OLED With Upgraded Display ... Phoronix

IC Resources — Freelance job Embedded Linux Developer ... - free-work.com

Google News - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 01:07

IC Resources — Freelance job Embedded Linux Developer ... free-work.com

OpenZFS Lands Exciting RAIDZ Expansion Feature

Phoronix - Thu, 11/09/2023 - 23:31

In addition to the OpenZFS code this week landing sync parallelism to improve write performance scalability, another shiny new feature was also merged: RAIDZ expansion...