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David Airlie Tackling RADV Vulkan Conformance
RADV co-founder David Airlie at Red Hat has begun focusing on the Vulkan conformance test suite for furthering along this open-source Radeon driver's conformance...
Linux 4.11-rc3 Released
The third weekly test release to the Linux 4.11 kernel is now available...
Audacity 2.1.3 Released
Audacity 2.1.3 has been released as the latest version of this popular open-source audio software...
Some Of The Lesser Known Wayland Compositors
While GNOME Shell, KDE Plasma, and Enlightenment are among the most talked about Wayland desktop/compositor implementations right now, there are still many active smaller projects working on their own Wayland compositors. Here's a look at some of them...
Benchmarks Of Many ARM Boards From The Raspberry Pi To NVIDIA Jetson TX2
For some weekend benchmarking fun, I compared the Jetson TX2 that NVIDIA released this weekend with their ARM 64-bit "Denver 2" CPU cores paired with four Cortex-A57 cores to various other ARM single board computers I have access to. This is looking at the CPU performance in different benchmarks ranging from cheap ~$10 ARM SBCs to the Raspberry Pi to the Jetson TX1 and Jetson TX2.
Mir Will Support NVIDIA's EGL Streams Approach
For those wondering about the NVIDIA binary driver support for Ubuntu's Mir display server, Mir appears to be planning its own support for using NVIDIA's EGL Streams implementation that has been criticized by Wayland developers while they continue hoping for a new API that's yet to materialize...
Vulkan 1.0.44 Released With Many Documentation Fixes
Vulkan 1.0.44 is now available as the newest version of the Vulkan 1.0 high-performance graphics API...
Star Citizen Plans To Go Vulkan-Only
Star Citizen, the much-anticipated space simulator video game that is the most-funded crowdfunding project ever with more than 39 million dollars pledged, is planning to go Vulkan-only...
GNOME's Vala 0.36 Released
While some will argue that GNOME's Vala is a "dead" language, there still are active contributors and today they released version 0.36...
Mesa 13.0 vs. 17.0 vs. 17.1 Git RadeonSI Tests
For those curious how Mesa 17.1-devel Git is performing relative to the Mesa 13.0 and 17.0 stable series, here are some Mesa Git benchmarks on three different Radeon graphics cards.
BUS1 Is Working On A D-Bus Broker
BUS1 remains in-development as an in-kernel IPC mechanism and the spiritual successor to the never-merged KDBUS...
Another Polaris 12 ID Added To RadeonSI
Another Polaris 12 device ID was added to the RadeonSI driver yesterday. In AMD's other open-source driver components they have also been tidying up their lists this week of the PCI device IDs for the upcoming Polaris 12 hardware...
Sway 0.12 Wayland Compositor Released
Sway 0.12 was released earlier this month as the newest feature update to this i3-compatible Wayland compositor...
Pipeline Statistic Queries Land In Mesa ANV
Support for pipeline statistics queries are now enabled within Mesa Git for the Intel ANV Vulkan driver...
Wine 2.4 Released, Still Working Towards Direct3D CSMT
Wine 2.4 was released a few minutes ago as the newest bi-weekly development release for this program to run Windows games/applications on Linux and other operating systems...
Khronos Group Appears To Be Readying For WebGL-Next Proposals
Separate from Apple's recent proposals around WebGPU as a new low-level graphics API for the web, The Khronos Group appears to be readying to solicit ideas for "WebGL Next" as their next-gen web graphics API...
Longtime Ubuntu Contributor, Cloud Liaison Leaving Canonical
After being at Canonical for nearly one decade, Jorge Castro is leaving his work on the Ubuntu Cloud and joining a new startup...
Mesa 17.0.2 Release Candidate Queues 40+ Changes
Not only is Emil Velikov prepping to release Mesa 13.0.6, but Mesa 17.0.2 is also right around the corner...
Intel Does Final XenGT Release Off Old Codebase
Intel developers have done their "2016-Q4" quarterly update to XenGT for mediated graphics passthrough on Linux hosts for Intel graphics hardware. This is their last release on the old architecture now that the code began landing upstream in Linux 4.10...
A Look At The Changes & New Features Of GNOME 3.24
With GNOME 3.24 due to be released next week, I've spent some time trying out the latest, near-final packages using Fedora Rawhide. The experience has been good and from my initial impressions it appears to be another reliable update to the GNOME Shell experience. Here are some screenshots and a recap of the new features and changes for this six-month update to this open-source desktop environment.
Heterogeneous Memory Management Is Still Planning For Linux 4.12
If longtime open-source Linux graphics developer Jerome Glisse has his way, the long-awaited Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support will be merged for the Linux 4.12 kernel...
Fedora Announces Its First Layered Image Release
For those making use of containers, the Fedora Project has announced its first Layered Image Release...
The GNU Toolchain Has Made Much Progress So Far In 2017
Red Hat's Nick Clifton has written a lengthy update concerning the state of the GNU Toolchain as we near the end of the first quarter, 2017...
Firmware-Based Power Management For Intel Graphics Advances
Intel developers have published their latest version of patches that implement a Single Loop Power Controller (SLPC) as a replacement to host-based power management features...
Trying Out The New OpenGL Threaded Dispatch In Mesa 17.1
At the beginning of today, OpenGL threaded dispatch landed in Mesa as work that's existed in patch form for years but was recently revived for Mesa Git due to the potential for significant performance gains in select scenarios...
Fedora 26 Alpha Has Been Delayed
Fedora 26 Alpha isn't going to make it out on time and has been delayed, pushing back the final F26 already by a second time...
Croteam Will Soon Be Releasing Fusion 2017 Update To Serious Sam HD
It looks like a public beta may be available soon of Serious Fusion 2017 for Serious Sam HD...
SUSE Developers Publish Radeon GCN Backend Code For GCC Compiler
While the AMDGPU "GCN" compiler support in LLVM is quite mature now, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) hasn't yet received a full-fledged GCN compiler back-end for AMD GPUs. SUSE developers have been working on that for AMD and today they have published their code branch. This GCN back-end for GCC is primarily focused on compute capabilities rather than compiling graphics shaders...
Guetzli: Google Rolls Out A New JPEG Encoder
Google has announced Guetzli, not a German cookie, but rather a new open-source algorithm for creating high-quality JPEGs that are 35% smaller than currently available methods...
Hammering The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X With An Intense, Threaded Workload
Today I got around to running a very heavy/demanding, very real-world workload on the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X that I've been meaning to test with this Zen CPU...
Trying Out LLVM 4.0's LLD Linker On Ubuntu 17.04 vs. GNU LD, GNU Gold
With this week's LLVM 4.0 release making the LLD linker ready for production use on some platforms, namely ELF on x86_64 / AArch64, I decided to finally try it out on one of my test systems. I set LLD as the default linker on an Ubuntu 17.04 system and set off to run some benchmarks.
EXT4 Patch For Statx Support
The statx system call was added to Linux 4.11 for providing enhanced file stats. While the statx() system call is in place for Linux 4.11, not all of the file-systems yet support it...
Bcachefs Brings New On-Disk Format With Encryption, Better Multi-Device Support
Kent Overstreet has announced a major update to Bcachefs, the new Linux file-system formed out of the advanced Bcache block layer caching code...
GNOME 3.24 RC2 Released
The final GNOME 3.23 development release is out ahead of next week's planned GNOME 3.24 debut...
xf86-video-ati 7.9 / xf86-video-amdgpu 1.3 DDX Driver Updates
Michel Dänzer of AMD has announced new releases of their X.Org DDX drivers: xf86-video-ati 7.9 and xf86-video-amdgpu 1.3. The changes in the updates are similar while the xf86-video-amdgpu DDX is paired to work with the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver while the xf86-video-ati driver continues on for the mature Radeon DRM...
DragonFlyBSD On NVMe SSDs: Samsung Good, Intel 600p Not
DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon has been testing out various NVMe M.2 SSDs under his BSD operating system to see how these latest-generation storage devices perform...
AMD Ryzen 5 CPUs Launching Next Month, 4 & 6 Core Options
AMD has confirmed that Ryzen 5 CPUs will begin shipping on 11 April...
Threaded OpenGL Dispatch Lands In Mesa 17.1
The long-standing patches for implementing threaded OpenGL dispatch have landed in Mesa 17.1-devel Git...
Pipeline Statistics Queries Wired Up For Intel ANV Vulkan Driver
Pipeline statistics queries is the latest Vulkan capability being added to the Intel "ANV" Mesa Vulkan driver...
DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER File-System Gets Important Write Performance Boost
Matthew Dillon has discovered an important bug in the DragonFlyBSD kernel's VFS cluster code affecting the HAMMER file-system write performance...
Future Vulkan Work Items: Advanced Compute, Improved HLSL Interop
While watching Khronos' GDC17 presentation recordings, Piers Daniell of NVIDIA touched on some possible future work items for Vulkan during the When Vulkan was One session...
Mesa 13.0.6 Is Being Prepared For Release With Many Backported Changes
Mesa release manager Emil Velikov is arranging to release Mesa 13.0.6 in the days ahead...
X.Org Server 1.19.3 Released
Adam Jackson has announced xorg-server 1.19.3 as the latest point release for the long-living X.Org Server...
2017 GDC Khronos/Vulkan Videos Now Available
The Khronos session videos from this year's Game Developers' Conference (GDC 17) are now available online...
6-Way Linux Distribution Comparison On AMD's Ryzen
Given AMD's Ryzen is a very new platform, some Phoronix readers have inquired whether a given distribution is a faster and better-supported than others. Here are tests of Ubuntu, Clear Linux, Debian, Antergos, Fedora, and openSUSE tested with an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X system.
QEMU 2.9 Is Being Prepped With New Functionality
QEMU 2.9-rc0 was tagged yesterday as this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack prepares for its next major release...
LLD Linker Declared Ready For Production On x86_64 ELF Platforms
LLVM developer Rui Ueyama is encouraging the "dogfeeding" of their linker, LLD, that should now be ready for production use on some platforms/architectures with this week's LLVM 4.0 release...
TEE Subsystem Proposed For Linux 4.12 Kernel
Linaro developers are hoping to merge the generic TEE subsystem into the Linux 4.12 kernel this spring...
GCC 7.1 Will Likely Be Released In Mid-April
Richard Biener has issued a new status report concerning the state of GCC 7 and that it should be released the middle of next month...
An On-Disk Cache Is Coming To The RADV Vulkan Driver
With Timothy Arceri at Valve haven gotten the RadeonSI shader cache into shape for Mesa 17.1, his latest focus is on introducing a shader cache for the RADV Vulkan driver...
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