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The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 23:15
Back during the Linux 6.3 kernel support for a number of legacy DRM drivers was removed and now patches have been volleyed for taking things one step further by now eliminating the infrastructure for supporting these older user-space mode-setting graphics/display drivers...

64-bit ARM Linux Kernel Against CPU-Specific Optimizations: "Pretty Unmaintainable"

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 21:47
While micro-architecture specific optimizations are rather common place within the Linux x86_64 kernel for various Intel and AMD CPU families with various performance tricks, the ARM64 Linux kernel maintainers are against introducing new micro-architecture specific optimizations as it affects new ARM processors...

NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux Driver Released With Source 2 Engine Fix On XWayland

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 21:45
Ahead of the US Thanksgiving holiday extended weekend, NVIDIA Linux engineers published their 545.29.06 Linux driver as the latest bug-fix release in the R545 series...

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