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Earlier today I wrote about how AMD will only be supporting Vulkan with the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver and not the more common Radeon DRM kernel driver. Here's a few more points to clarify the situation...
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on (#10VEF)
For those that haven't been following the SteamOS 2.0 "Brewmaster" updates, it's been a rather exciting 2016 so far...
on (#10TMV)
I've just received confirmation from AMD that their forthcoming Vulkan driver will only work with the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver. This means that unless this AMDGPU kernel driver is extended to support pre-VI hardware, only the very latest AMD GPUs on Linux will work with Khronos' next-generation API...
on (#10TGJ)
While the Radeon DRM driver has had support for doing GPU resets in case of hangs, the AMDGPU DRM driver for newer graphics processors haven't had this feature...
on (#10SXW)
Earlier this week I posted the results of a 10-way Linux distribution battle on the same Intel Xeon system and using all of the popular and latest Linux distribution releases. Taking things further, the article today has those results complemented by results on the Xeon system for several BSD operating systems. For seeing how the BSD performance stacks up to Linux, DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and the FreeBSD-based PC-BSD were benchmarked.
on (#10STF)
Canonical developers continue making progress in replacing the Ubuntu Software Center with GNOME Software...
on (#10SKY)
Version 2.0 of the KDE Partition Manager has been released...
on (#10S9X)
More than a few times over the years various Linux users have come forward to profess their "new" idea for improving open-source Linux GPU driver performance: the CPU-based LLVMpipe should work in tandem with a graphics card's hardware driver to deliver better performance...
on (#10S7E)
Back on Halloween there were patches published to provide Allwinner A10 display engine support via a new DRM driver called sun4i-drm. We hadn't heard much more about that driver until this week...
on (#10S5Q)
There's a rather hefty pull request of PowerPC architecture updates pending for the Linux 4.5 kernel...
on (#10S5R)
A NVIDIA engineer has penned a post about engaging with Vulkan and how this soon-to-be-released graphics API is great going forward...
on (#10S4B)
Neil Brown has sent in his final MD subsystem pull request. Past this Linux 4.5 work, he's stepping down...
on (#10QM7)
SUSE's Jiri Kosina sent in his pull requests today for the subsystems he maintains within the mainline Linux kernel...
on (#10PVM)
Any OpenSSH client released in the past six years is prone to two vulnerabilities by malicious SSH servers that could cause memory disclosures and a buffer overflow...
on (#10PM5)
For those relying upon the out-of-tree ZFS or Reiser4 file-systems, they have each been updated now to work with this week's release of the Linux 4.4 kernel...
on (#10PE1)
Christian König of AMD's open-source driver team landed some improvements this week into Gallium3D's video acceleration state tracker...
on (#10PCS)
As expected, AMD today finally released the Opteron A1100 "Seattle" SoC but sadly the 96Boards HuskyBoard or other lower-cost A1100-powered products have yet to be announced...
on (#10NZT)
What's the best way to beat the winter blues? Benchmarking, of course! For starting off our 2016 of graphics card benchmarking under Linux, I've been working on a large round-up of re-testing AMD Radeon graphics cards from the HD 2900XT (R600) graphics card through the latest R9 Fury (Fiji) graphics card while running Ubuntu and using the very latest open-source graphics driver stack. Here's an interesting look at how the OpenGL graphics performance has evolved on the AMD side over the past decade while also looking at the performance-per-Watt.
on (#10NNG)
Valve has finally released the SDK for their Steam Link device that began shipping late last year for playing Steam games on any TV in a house as long as there is a computer running Steam on your network...
on (#10NG6)
The F2FS file-system pull request is quite exciting while the XFS churn for the Linux 4.5 merge window isn't as meaty...
on (#10NA3)
How would you like a powerful PC that is all passively cooled -- thanks to a special design, able to naturally dissipate 200 Watts -- that can drive four 4K displays, four hard disks, multiple Ethernet ports, can handle a discrete graphics card, and is made of aluminum? Oh yeah, and is from a Linux-friendly company...
on (#10N8Q)
Last month Microsoft announced they would open-source their JavaScript engine and this week they've honored their word by releasing CharkaCore on GitHub...
on (#10N8R)
NVIDIA released yesterday the second Linux driver beta in the 361.xx series...
on (#10M1X)
Bryce Harrington of Samsung's Open-Source Group has announced a plan to release Wayland 1.10 in February...
on (#10KXC)
OpenDesktop.org, the network of sites like KDE-Look, KDE-Apps.org, GNOME-Look.org, and others, has been acquired by Blue Systems...
on (#10KFC)
It looks like the merging of AMD HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) support into the GCC compiler is imminent...
on (#10K47)
Qt will be introducing a "start-up license" to help small companies make use of the Qt tool-kit for commercial desktop and mobile applications. The Qt open-source licenses have also now been updated...
on (#10K19)
LLVM Clang 3.8 has been branched from trunk, thus making LLVM Clang 3.9 the new version under development...
on (#10JQG)
AMD appears poised to announce their long-awaited A1100 "Seattle" ARMv8 processor tomorrow...
on (#10JKW)
Patches have been posted several times now, but the Btrfs file-system is unlikely to offer support for LZ4 transparent file-system compression...
on (#10J94)
Emil Velikov announced the release this morning of Mesa 11.1.1 as the first big point release over Mesa 11.1...
on (#10J3V)
For those interested in small, low-power ARM single-board computers, up for your viewing pleasure today are benchmarks of several different boards from the Raspberry Pi Zero to the Banana Pi M2.
on (#10J2A)
Debian/Ubuntu developer Matthias Klose has run a test rebuild of Ubuntu Linux re-compiled under the in-development GCC 6 compiler...
on (#10HYW)
Allan Day has written a blog post today about some of the improvements that are being worked on for GNOME's settings area...
on (#10HPK)
Karol Herbst, the independent open-source developer who has been focusing upon Nouveau re-clocking support in recent months, has made a new proposal and patch series concerning NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400/500 "Fermi" re-clocking on this open-source driver...
on (#10HJ8)
Months after Axel Davy originally posted his patch-set for the SI machine scheduler to enhance the performance of AMD GCN GPUs on the open-source driver, it looks like the code will soon land in the AMDGPU LLVM back-end...
on (#10HGP)
Greg Kroah-Hartman sent in his pull requests today for the various kernel subsystems he maintains, including the kernel's staging area...
on (#10HC8)
Patrick Volkerding is kicking off 2016 by announcing the first beta release of Slackware 14.2...
on (#10G3Z)
Intel's Rafael Wysocki has sent in the refreshed ACPI and power management code that's targeting the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window...
on (#10FN6)
It looks like a miracle happened just in time for X.Org...
on (#10FHQ)
While the OpenSolaris-derived OpenIndiana operating system doesn't come to mind as a HTPC/multimedia operating system, the Kodi software was just ported to it...
on (#10F33)
If you still are relying upon a PS/2 mouse, it really is time to think about upgrading to a USB mouse, but keep reading as there are some changes with Linux 4.5...
on (#10EKS)
Ittiam has announced an OpenCL-based VP9 encoder for high performance, power efficient HD video encoding...
on (#10EGA)
Paolo Bonzini sent in the first pull request this morning for KVM (Kernel-Based Virtual Machine) changes for Linux 4.5...
on (#10E71)
As our first multi-way Linux distribution comparison of 2016, I took ten different modern Linux distribution releases and benchmarked them on the same Intel Haswell system. Being benchmarked were various releases of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, Clear Linux, Fedora, Antergos, and CentOS.
on (#10E44)
Debian's PHP package maintainers are preparing for PHP 7.0 packages for Debian Stretch that will also contain some changes compared to how they packaged PHP5...
on (#10DVC)
The media updates for the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window are very heavy...
on (#10D8T)
Up to now the LLVMpipe Gallium3D-based software rasterizer has been one of the GPU drivers to be black-listed by Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser, but that may soon change...
on (#10CYX)
As of a few days ago in the latest LLVM development code is support in the AMDGPU back-end for using the new linker...
on (#10CT5)
The latest proposed feature for Fedora 24 is support for Google's Go 1.6 programming language...