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More Zink Improvements Arrive For Mesa 22.3, Less Stuttering For RADV

Phoronix - Tue, 09/13/2022 - 19:44
Development on Zink as the OpenGL implementation atop the Vulkan API within Mesa remains very vibrant with a lot of optimizations and other improvements ongoing...

IO_uring Continues To Be Very Exciting: Promising io_uring_spawn Announced

Phoronix - Tue, 09/13/2022 - 18:25
IO_uring continues to prove itself to be one of the most exciting fundamental innovations to the Linux kernel of the past decade. While started for async storage I/O, it has seen recent work around networking use-cases and also driving other innovations like the new "UBD" driver for a IO_uring-based user-space block driver. It also continues to be relentlessly optimized by Jens Axboe and others for maximum performance potential. The latest innovation around IO_uring that was announced this week at Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 in Dublin is io_uring_spawn...

TrenchBoot To Pursue AMD & Arm Secure Launch Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/13/2022 - 18:00
TrenchBoot is the project backed by Oracle and other stakeholders for providing a boot-time integrity framework that builds upon boot integrity technologies and roots of trust for ensuring system integrity, network attestation launch, and other security use-cases...

AMDVLK 2022.Q3.4 Driver Finally Adds Ray-Tracing Support For RDNA2

Phoronix - Tue, 09/13/2022 - 17:36
AMDVLK 2022.Q3.4 was published this morning and significant with this new open-source Vulkan driver version is finally seeing ray-tracing support from this driver...

Dell Data Vault WMI Interface Reverse-Engineered For New Linux Sensor Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 09/13/2022 - 17:22
A new open-source driver has been posted for supporting the WMI interface found with newer Dell systems. This platform driver allows for reading battery properties like the temperature and IDs as well as additional fan/thermal sensor information...

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