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RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:45
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver ray-tracing support is about to become much faster with a pending improvement that is currently undergoing review...

Mold 2.1 Linker Brings LoongArch CPU Support

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:32
Last month the Mold 2.0 high-speed linker was released that shifted from AGPL to MIT licensing after their monetization strategy didn't pan out. This weekend the project is out with its Mold 2.1 release as another step forward for this alternative linker to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:24
Future LibreOffice releases will finally better handle animated PNG (APNG) files. After initial import support was added back in June, merged this week was initial export support for APNG files...

Glibc log2 Function Up To 69% Faster Thanks To FMA

Phoronix - Sun, 08/13/2023 - 18:08
Intel engineer and open-source compiler expert H.J. Lu has landed a much faster log2() implementation within the GNU C Library (glibc) that makes use of FMA instructions with modern x86_64 CPUs...

AMD FreeSync Panel Replay Ready For Linux 6.6, Next-Gen GPU Enablement Started

Phoronix - Sat, 08/12/2023 - 21:13
AMD submitted more "new stuff" for their AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute drivers for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle...

Linux Kernel Updated To Add Zenbleed Fix For Valve's Steam Deck

Phoronix - Sat, 08/12/2023 - 18:27
Last month when the Linux kernel was mitigated for Zenbleed as a CPU vulnerability affecting AMD Zen 2 processors, it turns out the Steam Deck APU was accidentally left without coverage. An x86/urgent pull request sent out today for the Linux 6.5 kernel and for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel releases will extend the Zenbleed mitigation to protect Steam Deck gamers...

Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support For Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/12/2023 - 18:02
Last year the DisplayPort 2.1 specification was published and now Intel's open-source Linux engineers are working on adding support to the kernel for handling of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode 2.1 support for that DP operation over USB Type-C connections...

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