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Mesa 24.1-rc4 Backports NVK DRM Format Modifiers Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/16/2024 - 04:35
The Mesa 24.1 stable release is nearing while out today is the fourth weekly release candidate. While the Intel and AMD Radeon graphics driver changes typically dominate new Mesa releases, Mesa 24.1-rc4 is headlined by a big change for the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver...

Intel TDX For Confidential VMs Causing Concern Among Fedora & Open-Source Advocates

Phoronix - Thu, 05/16/2024 - 00:58
One of the capabilities of newer Intel Xeon Scalable processors is support for Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) as a way of providing for confidential virtual machines. Intel TDX allows for "isolation, confidentiality, and integrity at the VM level" which is good from the security perspective but the dependence on signed binaries is causing mixed feelings within the Fedora camp at the broader open-source community...

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