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      RISC-V Vector ISA Support Slated For Linux 6.5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 June, 2023

    Support for RISC-V's Vector ISA is now expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window...
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      Linux 6.5 To Enable Rumble Support For Newer Microsoft Xbox Controllers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 June, 2023

    For Linux gamers relying on Microsoft Xbox controllers, the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel will enable rumble support for several newer controller models...
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      Fwupd 1.9.2 Released With Support For Firmware Updating On More Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 June, 2023

    Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released a new version of Fwupd, the open-source tool that goes along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for allowing motherboards/systems and various peripheral devices to enjoy firmware updates easily from Linux...
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      Linux 6.4-rc6 Released: The Kernel Appears To Be In Good Shape

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 June, 2023

    Linus Torvalds announced the release this afternoon of the Linux 6.4-rc6 kernel. The Linux 6.4 cycle continues going smoothly which means we could see the stable release potentially debut in two weeks...
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      More ACO Code Landing For RadeonSI Gallium3D

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 June, 2023

    AMD engineer Qiang Yu has recently been working on bringing support for Valve's ACO compiler from RADV over to the RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL driver as an alternative to using the default AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler. More code has landed this week in furthering the effort...
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      Linux Patches Updated For Sapphire Rapids C0.x Idle States

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 June, 2023

    While Intel has been working on the Sapphire Rapids support for Linux going back years and to other key components like GCC and LLVM/Clang to provide for a good at-launch experience with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, one bit that they hadn't squared away in advance of launch has been the new C0.x idle states. These new idle states between POLL and C1 allow for a mix of low latency and better power-savings than POLL...
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      Mesa's Venus VirtIO-GPU Driver Adds More Extensions To Help Zink

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 June, 2023

    The Mesa Venus driver that provides Vulkan API support for use inside of QEMU with VirtIO-GPU has added a number of extensions to help support for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...
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      Wine-Staging 8.10 Adds D3D9 Improvement, Fix For A Bug Open Since 2009

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 June, 2023

    Friday marked the release of Wine 8.10 as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot for this software allowing Windows games and apps to run on Linux and elsewhere. Out now is Wine-Staging 8.10 as the more experimental/testing form with an extra 500 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...
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      Debian 13 "Trixie" Aiming To Ship With RISC-V 64-Bit Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 June, 2023

    With today's release of Debian 12 the official ports are for AMD64, AArch64, ARMEL, ARMHF, i386, MIPS, 64-bit MIPS, POWER, and IBM System Z. There isn't RISC-V 64-bit as an official port but that is likely to change for Debian 13...