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      Mesa 23.1 Branched With Many New Radeon, Intel & Zink Graphics Driver Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April, 2023

    The Mesa 23.1 graphics driver code is now branched that marks an end to this quarter's feature development. Mesa 23.2-devel is now open on Git main in beginning work towards the Q3'2023 open-source user-space graphics driver stack feature release...
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      AMD Announces The Radeon PRO W7800/W7900 Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April, 2023

    As the "world's first pro chiplet GPU", AMD today is announcing the Radeon PRO W7000 series as their first RDNA3-based professional offerings.
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      Canonical Livepatching Now Available For Ubuntu HWE Kernels

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April, 2023

    Canonical announced today that their kernel livepatching service will now be available for their hardware enablement "HWE" kernels on Ubuntu Long-Term Support releases...
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      Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2023Q1 Adds AV1 Error Resilient Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April, 2023

    Days after releasing the Intel Media Driver 2023Q1, Intel's software engineers have now released oneVPL 2023Q1 as the updated quarterly release to this video processing library that is part of Intel's open-source oneAPI toolkit...
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      Lenovo Yoga Laptops Getting Tablet Mode Switch Driver With Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April, 2023

    For those with a Lenovo Yoga 2-in-1/convertible laptop, a tablet mode switch driver is set to be merged for Linux 6.4 to properly handle the tablet mode switching support for these devices while running the mainline Linux kernel...
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      Servo Project To Focus On Their "Layout 2020" Engine

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 April, 2023

    Servo as the browser engine started at Mozilla but now developed as a Linux Foundation project has been maintaining two separate layout engines and moving forward they hope to be able to focus on the newer "Layout 2020" engine and fill in its missing gaps...
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      Upstream Mesa Close To Supporting The Experimental Xe DRM Kernel Driver

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

    While we are still waiting for the Intel Xe kernel driver to be upstreamed as the modern alternative to the long-used i915 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver, upstream Mesa Git is nearly ready in supporting the Xe kernel driver and its new/changed interfaces...
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      Ryzen Mobile Power/Performance With Linux 6.3's New AMD P-State EPP Driver

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

    With Linux 6.3 there is the new AMD P-State EPP driver code for supporting the ACPI Energy Performance Preference (EPP) to further enhance the power efficiency and performance of modern AMD systems on Linux. Last week I ran some benchmarks of AMD EPYC with the new AMD P-State EPP mode while in today's article is a look at the laptop impact with Ryzen Mobile when comparing ACPI CPUFreq, the existing AMD P-State driver, and the new AMD P-State EPP mode and its multiple different preferences.
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      NVIDIA RTX-Remix 0.1 Released For Adding Path Tracing To Classic Games

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

    In addition to releasing the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card today (unfortunately, no launch day Linux review, still waiting on hardware...), NVIDIA has released as open-source the RTX Remix software for helping to add path tracing support to classic games...