on (#1E3T8)
With today marking the milestone of Intel's Mesa driver jumping ahead to OpenGL 4.2 compliance after just yesterday hitting OpenGL 4.0, I decided to try out the Mesa Git code of the i965 driver on an Ubuntu 16.04 system...
Phoronix
| Link | https://www.phoronix.com/ |
| Feed | http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php |
| Updated | 2026-02-10 00:30 |
on (#1E3PQ)
Jiri Kosina sent in the pull requests today for the subsystems he is responsible for, including the HID area. Here are the changes from that stack coming to Linux 4.7...
on (#1E3AD)
Another day, another round of more open-source driver work out of the AMD folks. The latest are some minor Polaris updates for the AMDGPU DRM driver...
on (#1E32R)
David Miller sent in his big networking subsystem pull request today full of new features for the Linux 4.7 merge window...
on (#1E2BE)
As anticipated, Frozenbyte released their newest game today, Shadwen, and there's day-one Linux support...
on (#1E25V)
Jens Axboe at Facebook sent in this morning the block I/O changes for the Linux 4.7 kernel merge window...
on (#1E1WK)
Last week AMD published initial open-source OverDrive GPU overclocking support for their AMDGPU kernel driver, eight years after Catalyst on Linux got OverDrive support. This feature won't be mainlined until the Linux 4.8 kernel but allows for basic overclocking of the GPU core on Tonga / Fiji / Polaris hardware...
on (#1E1S1)
For those that have been requesting some fresh benchmarks looking at the system power consumption / efficiency of modern Linux distributions/kernels and how they're working out for laptops/ultrabooks, here are some fresh benchmarks on two Intel devices when comparing Fedora 23 to Fedora 24 Beta and also testing out the power performance with the Linux 4.6 kernel.
on (#1E1HX)
Today marks the embargo lift for publications putting out performance figures and initial findings on the GeForce GTX 1080 "Pascal" graphics card. At least under Windows, the results are looking pretty great...
on (#1E1CF)
The ARM64 architecture updates were sent in on Monday for the Linux 4.7 kernel and do contain some notable changes...
on (#1E1AM)
KDE Frameworks 5.22 was released this week and with this frameworks update comes the addition of KWayland...
on (#1E199)
Happy 17th of May to our Norwegian readers, but if you're not busy today or not one of them, you may want to fire up ReactOS 0.4.1 as the latest version of this open-source project re-implementing Windows...
on (#1E16Q)
It was just yesterday that Intel's Mesa driver crossed the OpenGL 4.0 threshold while today it's jumped ahead to OpenGL 4.2...
on (#1DZRR)
The latest fun stuff worth mentioning for the Linux 4.7 kernel merge window are the ACPI and power management updates...
on (#1DZF6)
HSA stakeholders are hoping to mainline their HSA IL front-end for the GCC compiler stack. In particular, BRIG, the binary form of the Heterogeneous System Architecture Intermediate Language...
on (#1DZC7)
The x86 platform changes for the Linux 4.7 kernel are dominated by changes for bringing up support for SGI's next-generation Ultraviolet, UV4...
on (#1DZ4Z)
Gallium3D's video acceleration code for VA-API VDPAU state tracker were upgraded today with support for DRI3...
on (#1DZ50)
Microsoft today announced the release of .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1. Linux continues to be supported alongside Windows and OS X...
on (#1DZ37)
There are new binary-only firmware updates out today for both Intel and AMD Linux users...
on (#1DZ38)
Ingo Molnar is once again quite punctual with submitting his pull requests for a newly-opened kernel cycle. One of his noteworthy updates mailed in today were for the kernel's scheduler changes...
on (#1DYKB)
The latest project AMD is open-sourcing is FireRays...
on (#1DY4F)
Wine 1.9.10 was released today, Monday, rather than on their usual bi-weekly Friday release cadence. However, even with the extra weekend of development, it's not a particularly noteworthy release...
on (#1DY2K)
The first release candidate to the upcoming Manjaro 16.06 "Daniella" release is now available...
on (#1DXY8)
Ingo Molnar sent in the EFI changes for Linux 4.7 and they contain a number of exciting improvements for modern x86 and ARM systems...
on (#1DXS9)
The hwmon subsystem updates were mailed in this morning for the Linux 4.7 kernel merge window and contains a notable addition to the fam15h_power driver...
on (#1DXE1)
This weekend was the ambitious proposal to delay Mesa 12.0 until there's OpenGL 4.5 support in this open-source driver stack, which could tack on around an extra month to the release schedule. It's now looking like this change in release planning will not happen...
on (#1DXCV)
It took a while, but there's finally the start of an open-source, community-driven Raspberry Pi bootloader...
on (#1DXBH)
Intel's Mesa driver is now at OpenGL 4.0 compliance with the landing of ARB_gpu_shader_fp64...
on (#1DVQV)
As expected, Linus Torvalds has officially released the Linux 4.6 kernel...
on (#1DVGM)
There's traction building around delaying the next Mesa release, which is currently scheduled to be out in June and for a feature freeze in just a few days. A new proposal is to make Mesa 12.0 be the release with initial OpenGL 4.5 support...
on (#1DVEH)
The developers working on the FFmpeg multimedia library have finally implemented support for VA-API accelerated video encoding...
on (#1DV3Z)
Friday was a big day for AMD's open-source team as beyond publishing experimental Southern Islands / GCN 1.0 support for AMDGPU they also published for the first time open-source OverDrive overclocking support for the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver...
on (#1DTY6)
The lead maintainer of GrSecurity, Brad Spengler, that is a set of patches to the Linux kernel for providing security enhancements has written an opinion piece about the Linux 4.6 kernel security...
on (#1DTW9)
With Linux 4.6 expected today, here's a look at some of the features we can hope to see merged over the next two weeks once the Linux 4.7 merge window opens...
on (#1DTPH)
The ZFS file-system upstream has offered native encryption support but unfortunately it came after ZFS was closed up by Oracle. The Illumos folks have been working on ZFS encryption while it looks like soon there will finally be encryption support available for ZFS On Linux...
on (#1DTGS)
Yesterday I published some Radeon DRM-Next performance tests for the Radeon DRM code queued up for the Linux 4.7 kernel merge window. Today I'm testing the DRM-Next-4.7 code for AMDGPU for looking at the performance improvements coming to this newer AMD DRM driver with the next Linux kernel cycle. The DRM-Next-4.7 performance was compared to Linux 4.6 in this article for a Tonga and Fiji graphics card.
on (#1DTET)
If all goes well before the day is through will be the release of the Linux 4.6 kernel. If you've been behind on your Phoronix readings the past few weeks, here are the highlights to look forward to with Linux 4.6...
on (#1DTDW)
The upstream LLVM developers have been discussing possible changes about how they manage their releases in hopes of making it more optimal in working with downstream stakeholders of this widely-used, open-source compiler stack...
on (#1DTCN)
While the Intel i965 Mesa driver is currently at OpenGL 3.3 while waiting for the FP64 support to land for hitting OpenGL 4.2, various other OpenGL 4.3/4.4/4.5 extensions continue to move along for this open-source graphics driver...
on (#1DTCP)
Axel Davy who has been one of the prolific developers involved on the "Nine" Gallium3D state tracker for providing a basic Direct3D 9 implementation under Linux has sent in a set of 39 patches that he hopes to land in time for next month's Mesa release...
on (#1DRD8)
With the AMDGPU and Radeon changes all settled down for what's proposed for Linux 4.7, this weekend I'm benchmarking both of these open-source AMD Linux Direct Rendering Manager drivers. First up is the Radeon DRM driver with various OpenGL benchmarks in conjunction with Mesa 11.3-devel.
on (#1DR47)
Samuel Pitoiset's patches take the Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D driver's support up to OpenGL 4.2 for GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" graphics cards...
on (#1DR39)
Here are some extra GCC 6.1 compiler benchmarks to share this weekend, complementing the recent GCC 4.9 vs. GCC 5 vs. GCC 6 comparison and the GCC 6.1 vs. Clang 3.9 compiler comparison...
on (#1DQTB)
Intel's Tiago Vignatti has written a blog post about sharing CPU and GPU buffers on Linux using a new API introduced by DMA_BUF with the Linux 4.6 kernel...
on (#1DQR6)
Google engineers have been busy this week working on Coreboot: monsterous work at the start of the week, adding in a Qualcomm "Gale" device later in the week, and now today adding in support for another Chromebook...
on (#1DQQ8)
The weekly updates to Vulkan show no sign of slowing down with Vulkan 1.0.13 being their Friday the 13th update...
on (#1DQQ9)
ZFS On Linux 0.6.5.7 was released this week as the newest version of the ZFS file-system code for Linux...
on (#1DP8S)
Tonight AMD will be releasing their (experimental) patches for supporting GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" graphics processors under their newer AMDGPU kernel DRM driver as an alternative to the mature GCN 1.0 support found within the longstanding Radeon DRM driver...
on (#1DNJ2)
AMD has published patches today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel DRM driver that finally make it possible to overclock the GPU when using the open-source driver...
on (#1DN1V)
For the past number of months GNOME developers have been working on XDG-App as their sandboxing mechanism for desktop applications built atop Linux standards. XDG-App is now no more but say hello to Flatpak...