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FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters
FFmpeg's next release (v6.1) will prove quite exciting with Vulkan Video support merged for decoding H.264, H.265/HEVC, and AV1 content. Plus there are more Vulkan Video features and other improvements in the next version...
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Adds Native ASTC Texture Compression Support
The V3D Gallium3D driver that is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi single board computers has landed support in mainline Mesa for native ASTC texture compression support...
NVIDIA Cleans Up GSP Firmware Binary License
With yesterday's NVIDIA R535 Linux driver beta one of the unlisted changes with this driver update is revising the driver license around the firmware handling to make it more explicit around permitting the GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware binaries to make it easier for redistribution and use by the Nouveau open-source kernel driver...
Armbian 23.05 Brings Debian Bookworm Based Images, i3 Desktop Support
Armbian 23.05 is out today as this Arm-focused Debian-based Linux distribution effort is approaching its tenth anniversary...
Chrome 114 Released With CHIPS, Popover API
Google has promoted Chrome 114 to stable across Linux, Windows, and macOS...
LLVM Clang 16 vs. GCC 13 Compiler Performance On AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa"
With the recent stable releases of LLVM's Clang 16 and GCC 13 compilers there is now initial AMD Zen 4 "znver4" support in these open-source compilers. Curious about the performance difference between these two compilers on the very newest AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" server processors, I ran some LLVM Clang 16.0 and GCC 13.1 benchmarks on the flagship EPYC 9654 2P Linux server.
Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix
Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 6.3.5 today along with the 5.15.114, 5.10.181, 5.4.244, 4.9.284, and 4.4.316 point releases for those long-term (LTS) kernel versions...
NVIDIA R535 Linux Beta Brings New Vulkan Extensions, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol
NVIDIA has a nice treat to end out May for Linux users by publishing their first beta build in the R535 feature series...
Purism Librem Server v2 Announced: $2999 USD For A 9th Gen Core i3 With 16GB RAM
The folks at Purism have announced their latest product in the form of the Librem Server v2. Starting out at $2999 USD, these new servers are built around four-year-old 9th Gen Core CPUs already discontinued by Intel...
Intel VPU To Be Found On All Meteor Lake SKUs, Intel Seeding Open-Source Projects
Intel this week is using Computex 2023 to make some disclosures around next-generation Meteor Lake processors for laptops. The most exciting aspect relayed in advance during our press briefing last week was that all Intel Meteor Lake processor SKUs will feature their new Vision/Versatile Processing Unit...
AMD Working On WiFi RFI Interference Mitigation For Linux
As a step toward further improving AMD laptop support under Linux, AMD engineers have been working on WiFi radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation support for Linux with their latest laptops...
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Temporarily No Longer Identifies As "Intel" For CP2077
As a temporary workaround for helping recent versions of Cyberpunk 2077 to run on Linux under Valve's Steam Play with Intel Arc Graphics, Intel's open-source Mesa driver is temporarily no longer identifying as "Intel" graphics via its graphics vendor ID in order to workaround an issue...
System76 Virgo Aims To Be The Quietest Yet Most Performant Linux Laptop
System76 continues teasing the in-house laptop design they are working on codenamed Virgo...
XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch
Last week XFS users began encountering metadata corruption on the latest Linux 6.3 point releases. Following kernel developers and those testing the kernels on affected hardware over the US holiday weekend, it's believed the issue has been tracked down to one missing patch that is a one line of code being deleted...
Intel Posts Latest 113 Patches For Linux KVM TDX Support
One of the new features of Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen "Sapphire Rapids" server processors is support for Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) but for this generation is only being activated for CPUs going to select cloud providers. Intel TDX allows better isolating virtual machines from the VMM/hypervisor and other non-TD software on the platform. This limited roll-out of Intel TDX has worked out okay with the Linux support for this security feature still being in flux. Sent out today was the 14th spin of the 113 patches needed for getting KVM TDX support wired up within the Linux kernel...
GCC 11.4 Released With 110+ Bugs Fixed
While GCC 13 saw its first stable release several weeks back, for those taking their time in moving to major new compiler releases and still relying on the two-year-old GCC 11 series, out today is the GCC 11.4 point release...
Arm Details The Cortex-X4 With +15% Performance, Armv9.2 ISA
Arm today announced the new high-end Cortex-X4 CPU core design for delivering their most powerful Cortex compute cluster...
Linux 6.4-rc4 Released As A "Fairly Normal" Release
Due to Linus Torvalds traveling over this US Memorial Day weekend, he released Linux 6.4-rc4 about twelve hours ahead of schedule...
Vulkan 1.3.251 Released With One New Extension Worked On By Valve, Nintendo & Others
Vulkan 1.3.251 is out today as a rare Sunday morning spec update for this Khronos graphics/compute API...
Linux Lands Fix For Potentially Bogus Number Of Intel Hybrid CPU HT Siblings
A few days ago I wrote about a Linux kernel patch being prepared for fixing Intel hybrid CPU SMP/HT topology reporting due to the way the Linux kernel was currently counting the number of Hyper Threading siblings for each core. Fortunately, that fix which is apparently becomes more pressing for upcoming Meteor Lake processors, has now been picked up in time for today's Linux 6.4-rc4 release and is set for back-porting to stable kernel series...
Wine-Staging 8.9 Ships With The Very Latest VKD3D Code
Following the release of Wine 8.9 on Friday for enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux, Wine-Staging 8.9 is now available for this more testing/development-focused flavor of Wine that more liberally picks up in-development patches...
Debian 12.0's Installer Reaches RC4 Status
The Debian 12 "Bookworm" release is quickly approaching with an early June release date while for helping facilitate more last minute testing is a fourth release candidate of the updated Debian Installer...
Mesa 23.2 Virgl Lands Support For OpenGL 4.6 Inside Virtual Machines
The Virgl driver within Mesa for allowing open-source OpenGL support within virtualized environments in conjunction with the Virglrenderer is now capable of exposing OpenGL 4.6...
Linux Patches Improve VM Guest Performance When The Host Encounters Memory Pressure
An updated set of patches were posted on Friday that seem to improve the Linux guest VM performance when the host is under heavy memory pressure...
Intel Proposes Using Netlink For Linux Graphics Driver RAS & Telemetry
Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers are looking at making use of Netlink for exposing RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) and telemetry features of kernel graphics drivers to user-space for their modern GPUs...
KDE Plasma 6.0's Night Color Mode Will Work With NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver
Even with summertime approaching KDE developers remain very busy further enhancing the desktop stack and continued efforts around Qt6 porting and the Plasma 6.0 desktop...
Wine 8.9 Released With More Wayland Bits, Mono 8.0 Upgrade
Ahead of the US holiday weekend is the latest bi-weekly release of Wine for enjoying Windows games and applications running well on Linux and other platforms thanks to this open-source project...
AMD Posts QDMA Linux Driver For Review
A new AMD open-source driver posted for code review that's aiming for the upstream Linux kernel is the QDMA driver...
Those Using The XFS File-System Will Want To Avoid Linux 6.3 For Now
Multiple users have been reporting metadata corruption issues on the XFS file-system when upgrading to the Linux 6.3 stable kernel...
Intel Arc Graphics A750/A770 Quick Linux Competition With The Radeon RX 7600
For those wondering how the performance of Intel Arc Graphics is relative to the newly-launched AMD Radeon RX 7600 and other recent graphics cards, here are a couple of benchmarks for the Arc Graphics using the new Linux 6.3 stable kernel paired with Mesa 23.2-dev for the latest open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...
Ubuntu Forms An HPC Team To Push AI, High Performance Computing Workloads
Announced on Thursday was the Ubuntu High Performance Computing (HPC) team to promote Ubuntu Linux for running AI/ML, energy, bioinformatics, meteorology, and other workloads on Ubuntu Linux...
Linux Preps Hybrid SMP Fix To Avoid Upcoming Laptops Appearing As 11 Socket Monsters
A fix is on its way to the mainline Linux 6.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernel series to fix x86 topology reporting for Intel Hybrid systems. The topology bug within the kernel becomes more pronounced for Meteor Lake laptops where currently internal Intel test laptops can report the systems having 11 CPU sockets rather than the proper number of cores all contained within one CPU socket...
Big Throughput Boost & Lower Latency With New Patch For Linux Checksum Function
Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.5 cycle kicking off in about one month is a new Linux x86 optimization patch for further tuning csum_partial, the function used within the kernel for calculating 32-bit checksums on blocks of data. Much lower latency and higher throughput can be observed with the newly-optimized csum_partial on the latest Intel/AMD processors...
Qt 5.15 LTS Takes Another Step Closer To Retirement
The Qt 5.15 Long-Term Support branch as the last release in the Qt5 series is one step closer to retirement with The Qt Group now having ended its standard support for legacy license holders...
sdl12-compat 1.2.64 Released - More Classic Games Now Running On This SDL2 Layer
Following the recent sdl12-compat test release, sdl-compat v1.2.64 has been released as the newest version of this library implementing the SDL 1.2 API/ABI atop SDL 2.x interfaces for enhancing game compatibility on modern Linux environments...
Mesa 23.1.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes For RADV, Zink, Intel ANV
For those that prefer waiting to the first point release before shifting to a new Mesa3D quarterly feature release, Mesa 23.1.1 is out today so you can now begin upgrading to this latest set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used on Linux systems and elsewhere...
PostgreSQL 16 Reaches Beta With Performance Improvements - Including SIMD for x86 & ARM
PostgreSQL 16 is up to its first beta milestone today with new performance optimizations and continued security enhancements...
IBM Baking Some Nice Optimizations To EXT4's Multi-Block Allocator
IBM engineers have been working through some multi-block allocator improvements for the EXT4 file-system driver. In particular, they aim to address some shortcomings that were discovered when running various tests on IBM POWER hardware with a 64k block size...
AI Processing Unit "APU" Driver For Linux DRM Is Among The Latest Accelerator Drivers
Sent out last week by Alexandre Bailon with Bay Libre is the AI Processing Unit "APU" Direct Rendering Manager driver to interface between CPUs and AI Processing Units. The hope is this APU driver could be re-used by various hardware drivers while the initial focus is on bringing up the AI capabilities of the MediaTek MT8183 SoC...
Intel Engineers Revise Key Locker Implementation For Linux
Going back to 2020 has been work by Intel's open-source engineers on implementing Key Locker support for Linux. Intel Key Locker allows for encrypting/decrypting data with an AES key without having access to the raw/actual key. AES keys are converted into handles with Intel Key Locker that can then be used for carrying out encryption/decryption on that system until revoked or system state changes. Intel engineers on Wednesday posted their seventh iteration of the patches for supporting Key Locker on Linux...
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Now Ships The AMD Graphics Driver
In addition to Microsoft's Build 2023 conference this week where they announced expanded archive/compression format support, Windows Terminal improvements, more AI tech, and other initiatives, they also happened to release CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230518 as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution...
More Wine Wayland Code Has Been Merged
Since the early bits of Wine Wayland support were merged back in March for building up a native Wayland display driver, Alexandros Frantzis has continued submitting more of the code for review and upstreaming. Wednesday marked the third chunk of Wine Wayland code to be merged...
Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.0 Brings SYCL For Xe GPUs, NVIDIA CUDA, AMD HIP
Among Intel's dozens of terrific open-source components -- including the many components making up their oneAPI software suite -- is Open Image Denoise. Open Image Denoise for years has been a terrific, high-performance denoising library for ray-tracing use The software has long been CPU-based while being highly performant thanks to leveraging modern instruction set extensions. Today though Open Image Denoise 2.0 is released and brings GPU acceleration across Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA graphics processors...
ROCm 5.5.1 Released For AMD's Open-Source Compute Stack
Following the release at the start of the month of ROCm 5.5, today it's been succeeded by the ROCm 5.5.1 point release...
Fedora's RPM Fusion Adds Experimental Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support
The Intel IPU6 web camera tech found in Alder Lake laptops and newer has unfortunately no upstream Linux driver yet and has resulted in kernel developers avoiding these laptops where web camera support is needed. Intel maintains an out-of-tree IPU6 Linux driver while they have been making progress toward ultimately getting it upstreamed. To ease the situation for Fedora Linux users, an experimental IPU6 software stack has now been added to the RPM Fusion repository...
AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Performance
For those that have been interested in the Radeon RX 7900 series for the great open-source driver support on Linux but have been wanting a cheaper graphics card and perhaps are a 1080p gamer, today's launch of the Radeon RX 7600 will surely be of interest to you. The Radeon RX 7600 is a nice lower-end graphics card for 1080p gamers and has upstream open-source Linux support already -- including the ability to run out-of-the-box already on Ubuntu 23.04 and other newer distributions. Here is my Linux performance review of the AMD Radeon RX 7600.
AMD EDAC Linux Driver Being Extended To Support Ryzen 7000 Series CPUs
With some basic additions to the amd64_edac Linux kernel driver, the Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors are being treated like the EPYC 9004 series for EDAC reporting, including ECC error reporting on supported RAM/motherboard configurations...
Updated AMD Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Color Management
Melissa Wen of Igalia along with developers from AMD and Valve have been working on improved AMD color management support with a particular focus on the Steam Deck but will also benefit other AMD Radeon Linux users as well...
Patch Posted For Formally Deprecating The SLAB Allocator
Following the recent removal of the SLOB allocator, SLAB is the latest on the chopping block. In order to push users to the SLUB allocator as the preferred solution, SLAB is now going through its deprecation and eventual removal process...
Mageia 9 Beta 2 Released With Linux 6.3 Kernel, KDE Plasma 5.27 + GNOME 44 Desktops
Mageia 9 beta 2 has been released with this Mandriva/Mandrake-lineage Linux distribution nearing its next major release...
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