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Radeon R600g Driver Retires Its SB Optimizer

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 20:54
A decade ago the Radeon R600g SB shader back-end proved useful for boosting gaming performance on pre-GCN graphics cards of the time and proved useful. But in more recent years in the R600g switch to NIR, the SB path hasn't received much attention and its benefits have diminished. The R600g SB code has now been dropped...

Nouveau Kernel Driver Changes For Supporting NVK Vulkan Submitted To DRM-Next

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 18:36
The Nouveau DRM kernel driver changes for new user-space APIs to be used by the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver have now been submitted for pulling to DRM-Next from the current drm-misc-next queue. These Nouveau kernel driver additions for NVK in turn will then premiere with the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle...

AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 18:24
Merged for Mesa 23.3 is support for the VirGL code to handle accelerated AV1 video decoding within guest virtual machines...

Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 18:16
GRUB2 and Linux bootloaders in general don't get too much attention these days as for the most part they "just work" well and most Linux distributions prefer to keep their GRUB menu hidden if at all possible. But at the same time it's an often overlooked area and not an area where there is an eager and glamorous open-source community behind it. However, it looks like Red Hat at least may have some new ideas brewing and they are hiring now to improve the Linux bootloader experience...

KDAB Releases KDGpu As A Thin Wrapper Around Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 18:01
The consulting firm KDAB that is known for their work on the Qt toolkit has released KDGpu as a new library that is a thin wrapper around the Vulkan API and aims to allow for more productive GPU programming...

How To Install PIP to Manage Python Packages in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 12:00
The post How To Install PIP to Manage Python Packages in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Pip (recursive acronym for “Pip Installs Packages” or “Pip Installs Python“) is a cross-platform package manager for installing and managing Python packages (which can be

The post How To Install PIP to Manage Python Packages in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Intel Begins Drafting AVX10 Plans For The LLVM/Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 04:30
In addition to Intel posting initial AVX10.1 patches for the GCC compiler, Intel has also begun sorting out their AVX10 plans for the LLVM/Clang compiler stack...

Linux Lands Fix For AMD Zen 1 Bug That Could Leak Data After A Division By Zero

Phoronix - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 02:27
After a rather busy Patch Tuesday with the AMD Inception vulnerability and Intel Downfall going public, the Linux kernel saw a new bug fix merged today for a different issue... It turns out original AMD Zen 1 processors could end up leaking data in certain conditions after a divide by zero occurs...

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