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For those that didn't pick up a Steam Controller or Steam Link back during Valve's holiday sales, they are running a Steam Hardware sale the next few days...
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Last night well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olsak released a new patch series threading Gallium3D's pipe_context and initially is suitable for the RadeonSI driver. Given the performance gains he mentioned in the patch series, I was anxious to try out this new Gallium3D threading capability.
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Westfield is a new independent project that provides a Wayland protocol XML parser and generator for JavaScript...
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Now that GCC 7 was released as stable last week, the GCC trunk/master code-base is back open for merging more feature work with the beginning of the GCC 8 development cycle...
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Microsoft used its Build 2017 conference for rolling out the first public preview of .NET Core 2.0...
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NVIDIA at their annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC'17) have provided more public details about the forthcoming CUDA 9 compute update...
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The kbuild updates for the Linux kernel aren't usually noteworthy but at least this time does bring a few LLVM/Clang related changes...
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A new point release of the OpenShot video editor is now available for those satisfied with this open-source non-linear video editing solution...
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Not to be confused with the recently-landed OpenGL threaded dispatch support that recently landed in Mesa Git, Marek Olšák has now published a set of patches for threading Gallium3D for RadeonSI: moving the execution of all Gallium3D pipe_context calls into a separate CPU thread...
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Following the 117 patches adding 314k lines of code to AMDGPU for enabling the next-generation "Raven Ridge" Zen+Vega APU within the AMDGPU DRM driver, Raven support patches have emerged for the RadeonSI driver, including support for the new VCN video block...
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Artanis 0.2 has been released, a newer GNU project that's a web application framework written in Guile Scheme...
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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang used the company's GPU Technology Conference to today announce the Volta V100 accelerator for data centers and HPC workloads...
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Alex Deucher of AMD has posted the initial AMDGPU DRM/KMS kernel driver patches for bringing up graphics on the next-generation "Raven" APUs...
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Patches came out today expanding the Vega 10 family with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack...
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NetworkManager 1.8 is now available as the latest version of this widely-used network management component to Linux systems...
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Mesa 17.1.0 is now officially available as the Q2'2017 update to this important piece to the open-source 3D Linux graphics driver stack...
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NVIDIA's gaming software, GeForce Experience, now has support for OpenGL and Vulkan...
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The ARM folks have requested that the TEE subsystem and OP-TEE drivers be included in Linux 4.12, the Trusted Execution Environment...
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A two-year-old patch for the X.Org Server from a NVIDIA developer has finally landed...
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Last week was the main ACPI / power management updates for Linux 4.12 while Intel's Rafael Wysocki has now submitted a second set of feature updates for this next version of the Linux kernel...
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Git 2.13 is now available as the latest version of this widely-used, open-source version control system...
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AMD's CodeXL utility that's open-source under the GPUOpen umbrella for graphics profiling/debugging is up to version 2.3...
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There are a number of Btrfs fixes/clean-ups for the Linux 4.12 kernel...
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NVIDIA has released a new short-lived Linux binary driver update that jumps it ahead to the 381 release series...
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Olof Johansson has sent in his large set of pull requests for the ARM SoC/platform updates slated for the in-development Linux 4.12 kernel...
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While there are still a few days left until the Linux 4.12 merge window closes and the 4.12 release candidates for the next two months, the Qualcomm-backed CodeAurora already has lined up some new code for the reverse-engineered, community-driven Freedreno MSM DRM driver for Adreno hardware...
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Lars Knoll has made some interesting remarks regarding the future of Qt 5 as well as Qt 6...
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Cockpit, the open-source project providing a pleasant web-based administrative interface to Linux systems and developed significantly by Red Hat / Fedora developers, is now officially available in Ubuntu and Debian...
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A Phoronix reader pointed out a performance regression fix now available for GCC 6 and GCC 7 that could help some rather trivial C code perform much better...
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The first release candidate for the upcoming Qt Creator 4.3 integrated development environment (IDE) Is now available for testing...
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There are a number of IOMMU optimizations queued for Linux 4.12...
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The release of MINIX 3.4 is inching closer with the availability now of its sixth release candidate...
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Valve continues maturing their SteamVR Linux support...
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Coreboot 4.6 has been released as the project's first official release of 2017...
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The latest Linux 4.12 merge window pull request worth talking about is that of the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates...
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This week is NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) where the graphics giant will be unveiling a number of software updates and more...
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The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes have been submitted for the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window...
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Among the many new features for Linux 4.12 are two new I/O schedulers in mainline: the long-standing BFQ (Budget Fair Queueing) and Kyber, a new I/O scheduler developed at Facebook. Here are some initial benchmarks of these I/O schedulers on the Linux Git code as of this past week.
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Last week Azul Systems released a new version of its Zing runtime for Java. With the new version of Zing comes a new JIT compiler dubbed "Falcon" for offering faster Java performance...
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Emil Velikov has announced the Mesa 17.1-rc4 test release and plans to officially release Mesa 17.1 tomorrow if no further issues come about...
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Ted Ts'o has sent in the EXT4 file-system updates targeting the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window...
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Earlier this week I posted a number of Radeon RX 550 Linux benchmarks making use of AMD's popular open-source driver stack. For those wondering how the open-source driver compares to the AMDGPU-PRO hybrid proprietary driver for this sub-$100 Polaris GPU, these benchmarks will interest you.
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We are through week one of two for the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window. It's been a busy first week of 4.12, so for your viewing pleasure this weekend is a recap of some of the changes that landed over the past seven days...
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Chrome's Ozone abstraction layer has added support for gamepads...
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The initial work towards ARB_bindless_texture support for Mesa has been merged to master...
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The XFS file-system changes have been submitted for Linux 4.12 and includes one main feature change...
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While waiting for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release, Debian 8.8 has shipped this weekend as the latest stable update...
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Thomas Hellstrom of VMware has sent out a series of patches to correct the performance when DRI3 (Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3) is enabled for virtual drivers such as their VMWGFX Gallium3D driver...
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Greg KH has submitted the staging changes for the Linux 4.12 kernel...
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DragonFlyBSD has updated their port of the Radeon DRM Linux driver code to provide better open-source AMD graphics support...