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Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension

Pet, 03/08/2024 - 19:00
Vulkan 1.3.280 is out today as the newest spec update for this high performance graphics, compute, and video API...

Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids

Pet, 03/08/2024 - 16:55
While Ubuntu 24.04 LTS won't be officially out until the back-half of April, here is an early look at how the Intel Xeon Scable "Emerald Rapids" performance is looking right now compared to Ubuntu 23.10 and the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS series in a variety of benchmarks. As largely expected with the software updates, the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will help achieve greater server/HPC performance on recent Intel processors.

VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support For SR-IOV Graphics

Pet, 03/08/2024 - 15:53
Announced one month ago by Cyberus Technology was an open-source KVM back-end for VirtualBox. This work by Cyberus allows for using the KVM hypervisor with VirtualBox as opposed to its custom kernel module maintained by Oracle. That KVM back-end has now been extended to support SR-IOV graphics virtualization...

Improved Debugging Of Suspend/Resume For AMD Ryzen Laptops On Linux Coming With MP2 STB

Pet, 03/08/2024 - 15:43
AMD engineers and those debugging s2idle suspend/resume issues for Ryzen laptops under Linux will soon have more information at disposal for newer SoCs supporting MP2 STB functionality...

Improved Case-Insensitive File Handling Coming To Linux 6.9

Pet, 03/08/2024 - 14:26
The optional case-insensitive file/folder handling under Linux that's hooked up for various file-systems like EXT4 and F2FS will benefit from improved performance on the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle...

Linux 6.8 Squeezing In Support For A Few Newer HP HyperX Controllers

Pet, 03/08/2024 - 12:56
Sent in today as part of the input subsystem fixes for the current Linux 6.8 kernel cycle are adding support for several more HP HyperX gaming controllers...

Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver

Pet, 03/08/2024 - 12:42
Merged two years ago with Linux 5.15 with the "NTFS3" driver developed by Paragon Software with working read-write support and other improvements for supporting Microsoft's NTFS file-system driver. This driver was a big improvement over the original NTFS read-only driver found in the mainline kernel and faster than using the NTFS-3G FUSE file-system driver. Now with enough time having passed and the NTFS3 driver working out well, the older NTFS driver is set for removal...

Canonical Looking At Including Performance Tools In Ubuntu 24.04 By Default

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 22:45
A proposal has been laid out by Canonical engineers to include various performance tooling in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by default to help in those trying to squeeze out greater performance gains out of their hardware/software and/or debugging/profiling issues. The proposal wants to "make Ubuntu absolutely great for performance engineers" but would mean somewhat significant size increases to the Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs...

Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 18:41
While Mesa Gallium3D drivers with capable GPUs have already supported accelerated AV1 video deocding, to date it's been limited to the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). With newly-merged code for Mesa 24.1, the VDPAU state tracker can now also handle AV1 decoding with supported drivers/GPUs...

GNUnet 0.21 Rolls Out New Transport Layer For Building Decentralized, Distributed Apps

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 17:00
GNUnet 0.21 has been released as a major update to this GNU project building a network stack for secure, decentralized, and privacy-preserving distributed applications. GNUnet continues striving for a "GNU internet" and with the v0.21 release has rolled out a new transport layer and working to address prior design shortcomings...

GTK 4.14 To Provide Crisper Font Rendering, Better Fractional Scaling

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 14:27
The upcoming GTK 4.14 toolkit release with the new renderers should yield crisper font rendering...

Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 12:46
The performance is likely to be atrocious, but the Mesa Lavapipe driver implementing the Vulkan API for CPU-based execution has rolled out support for Vulkan ray-tracing...

Etnaviv Preps For Vivante PCI Device Support, Changes For Mesa's Teflon NPU Handling

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 12:38
The Etnaviv DRM kernel driver providing reverse-engineered support for Vivante graphics and NPU IP has sent out their latest feature changes to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 merge window...

Experimental Linux Patches Allow Kernel Tracing To Work Past Reboots/Crashes

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 12:13
Steven Rostedt this week posted some interesting albeit experimental patches for the Linux kernel to support persistent traces that work across a reboot or crash...

Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 06:00
Fedora Workstation has long defaulted to using GNOME's Wayland session by default, but it has continued to install the GNOME X.Org session for fallback purposes or those opting to use it instead. But for the Fedora Workstation 41 release later in the year, there is a newly-approved plan to no longer have that GNOME X.Org session installed by default...

Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver

Čet, 03/07/2024 - 01:39
The merge request enabling basic OpenGL support for the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git this evening as another important step forward for native Wayland support for enjoying Windows games/apps on Linux...

Tiny Corp At "70%" Confidence For AMD To Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware

Sre, 03/06/2024 - 20:18
Following the news from earlier around George Hotz' Tiny Corp raising new AMD GPU issues and calling for the MES firmware to be open-sourced followed by a positive message from AMD CEO Lisa Su, there's a new update on the matter following a meeting today between Tiny Corp and AMD...

OpenVINO 2024.0 Brings More GenAI Features, New JavaScript API

Sre, 03/06/2024 - 18:28
Intel today released their open-source OpenVINO 2024.0 toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference across a range of hardware...

NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well On GeForce GPUs

Sre, 03/06/2024 - 17:15
With the recent NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux driver release the R550 series is now out as stable. One of the prominent changes with the NVIDIA R550 Linux driver is bringing the GeForce and workstation GPU support up to "CERTIFIED" quality when using NVIDIA's open kernel modules that are distributed as part of their driver package. Previously the open-source (out-of-tree) kernel modules were just certified for their data center GPUs while now they are basically acknowledging that they are in good shape too for GeForce and workstation products. In this article are some benchmarks of the open and proprietary kernel driver options of the NVIDIA R550 Linux driver.

AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9

Sre, 03/06/2024 - 15:57
Queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle is an FRU Memory Poison Manager "FMPM" developed by AMD that may later be adapted for other non-AMD platforms. The FRU Memory Poison Manager is working to persist information around known bad/faulty memory across reboots...
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