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AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 23:13
With the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel adding support for more upcoming Radeon graphics processors, that means more auto-generated header files for the new IP blocks... I was curious to see the overall size now of the AMDGPU kernel driver along with its associated code like the AMDKFD compute driver. It's now above 5 million lines for the kernel driver portion...

PHP 8.3 RC1 Released With json_validate, Anonymous Read-Only Classes

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 21:42
The first release candidate of PHP 8.3 is now available for testing this annual feature release...

ReiserFS Officially Declared "Obsolete"

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 19:53
As part of updates to the older file-system drivers for Linux 6.6, the ReiserFS file-system is no longer marked as "Supported" but is officially treated as "Obsolete" within the Linux kernel...

Linux 6.6 Graphics Drivers: NVK uAPI, New AMD GPUs, More Meteor Lake, CI Support

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 18:39
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel to provide new features for the number of kernel graphics drivers and other AI accelerator drivers within the mainline kernel...

GenPD Subsystem Posted For Linux 6.6 - Torvalds Wonders What The Heck Is "GenPD"

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 18:19
A pull request was sent out this week to introduce the GenPD subsystem and add a new drivers/genpd area for the GenPD provider drivers to the kernel... To which Linus Torvalds wonders what the heck is a "GenPD" as probably most of you are also wondering about...

More Wine Wayland Code Submitted For Review - Part 6

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 17:58
As part of the long ongoing effort around Wine Wayland support for upstream in order to be able to utilize Wayland directly without a reliance on XWayland when running Windows games/apps, the sixth part to that enablement has been posted for review...

Linux 6.6 Gets More Voltage & Temperature Sensors Working On Some Desktop Motherboards

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 17:45
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window...

16 Free and Open Source Video Players for Linux in 2023

Tecmint - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 12:31
The post 16 Free and Open Source Video Players for Linux in 2023 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Audio and Video are two common sources of information sharing we see in today’s world. May it be publishing any product, the need to share

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