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      25 More Patches Further Improve RADV's Ray-Tracing For Complex Games

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 June, 2023

    Overnight another 25 patches were merged to Mesa 23.2 for improving RADV's ray-tracing code after the merge request had been in the works for the past two months...
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      libei 1.0 Released For Better Supporting Emulated Input On Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 June, 2023

    The libei 1.0 project milestone has now been achieved for this open-source effort started by Red Hat's Peter Hutterer for better emulated input support on Wayland...
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      RADV Vulkan Video Gets More Robust H.265 Decoding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 June, 2023

    Mesa 23.1's RADV driver added initial support for Vulkan Video with select video formats while now a set of patches have been merged to Mesa 23.2-devel for making the H.265 (HEVC) decoding more robust...
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      AMD Radeon ProRender Plug-Ins Switch To HIP For Newer GPUs Rather Than OpenCL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June, 2023

    Back in March the AMD Radeon ProRender SDK 3.1 finished transitioning to HIP for using AMD's HIP C++ interface rather than OpenCL for newer Radeon GPUs. Following that, the Radeon ProRender plug-ins have also now finished being converted over to using HIP on AMD Radeon Vega (GFX9) GPUs and newer...
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      UEFI Unaccepted Memory Support Appears Ready For Linux 6.5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June, 2023

    For over two years Intel open-source engineers have been working on preparing the Linux kernel for UEFI unaccepted memory support and it looks like that will cross the finish line with the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...
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      Mesa 23.2 Receives Asahi AGX Gallium3D Changes For OpenGL 3.1 + GLES 3.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June, 2023

    Following yesterday's news of OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0 working on the open-source driver for Apple M1/M2 graphics with Asahi Linux using their "edge" channel, those patches to the Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver have now worked their way into the upstream Mesa 23.2 codebase...
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      Linux Patches Posted That Would Allow Boot-Time Disabling Of x86 32-bit Processes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June, 2023

    SUSE engineer Nikolay Borisov sent out a set of patches today for "ia32_disabled" that would allow disabling of support for x86 32-bit processes from running on x86_64 Linux systems. As a first step this would be a boot-time option when "ia32_disabled" is set...
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      openSUSE Leap 15.5 Released With KDE Plasma 5.27, Updated Mesa & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June, 2023

    For those using openSUSE Leap as the rock-solid, time-tested alternative to the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, today marks the availability of openSUSE Leap 15.5 as another incremental upgrade to the Leap 15 series...
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      Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 June, 2023

    Queued via drm-misc-next and now on its way to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle is support in the VirtIO GPU DRM driver for the synchronization object user-space API. This is important for Vulkan and is working with the Venus/Virgl driver context as well as Intel/AMDGPU/Freedreno native contexts too...