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      MidnightBSD 3.0.1 Released With Security Fixes, rc.d Scripts Cleanup

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 April, 2023

    Building off last month's release of MidnightBSD 3.0 for this desktop-focused, FreeBSD-forked operating system the v3.0.1 update is now available...
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      Chrome 112 Released With WASM Garbage Collection Trial, CSS Nesting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 April, 2023

    Google today promoted the Chrome 112 web browser to their stable channel on all supported platforms...
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      RADV Lands Shader Caching For Graphics Pipeline Libraries

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 April, 2023

    Ahead of hopefully enabling the RADV Vulkan Graphics Pipeline Libraries "GPL" support by default for this quarter's Mesa 23.1 release, the RADV driver has now landed on-disk shader caching support for GPL libraries...
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      CentOS Hyperscale SIG Now Has An Intel-Optimized Repository

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 April, 2023

    The CentOS Hyperscale special interest group that is focused on providing new packages and features atop CentOS Stream for use by hyperscalers like Meta and Twitter have now established a "hyperscale-intel" repository for Intel-optimized packages...
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      System76 Teases Their "Virgo" In-House Manufactured Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 April, 2023

    While for a number of years now System76 has manufactured their own Thelio desktop line of Linux PCs from their facility in Denver, Colorado (and their Launch Keyboard), they have long talked up ambitions for eventually manufacturing their own Linux laptops rather relying on other white-label manufacturers as they currently do. Today a first glimpse of their in-house laptop prototyping was shared,..
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      Intel Posts Xe DRM Scheduler Patches For Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 April, 2023

    As part of the process for getting Intel's new Xe DRM kernel driver upstreamed as the eventual replacement to the existing i915 driver for Gen12 graphics hardware and newer, Intel engineers on Monday posted the initial Xe DRM scheduler patches that have been separated out to get review on them, figure out what can be common/shared among drivers, and get those bits upstreamed...
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      Updated NVIDIA Turing Firmware Published For Open-Source Nouveau Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 April, 2023

    NVIDIA has published updated NVIDIA TU10x /TU11x "Turing" GPU firmware to support newer RTX 20 hardware revisions and fix outstanding issues affecting the open-source Nouveau driver...
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      Initial Support For AMD's Next-Gen, Multi-XCC CDNA Accelerator Starting With Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 April, 2023

    As I pointed out at the end of March, AMD has begun bringing up a new CDNA GPU in their Linux kernel driver code, past the currently known Instinct MI300 "GFX940" series. This "GFX943" part is some new CDNA multi-XCC accelerator and the open-source AMD engineers have begun posting many patches for this new GPU target. The initial bits of that support will appear in the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle...
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      RADV Sees Experimental Fragment Shader Interlock - Important For Emulators, D3D12

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 April, 2023

    A currently-testing implementation of VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock has been published for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver. This Vulkan fragment shader interlock support is used by some game emulators as well as being useful in running Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan and similar purposes...