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      Turtle Beach REACT-R & Recon Xbox Controllers To Be Supported In Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March, 2023

    Turtle Beach gaming controllers will see support by the widely-used XPad driver with the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel...
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      QNX Support Restored For SDL3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March, 2023

    When SDL3 development kicked off last November for this open-source library that is widely used by cross-platform games and other software, QNX support was removed alongside other old targets. Just months later, the QNX platform support is being revived...
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      Vulkan 1.3.245 Brings New NVIDIA Vendor Extension To Help Optimize Ray-Tracing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March, 2023

    The Vulkan 1.3.245 extension is a small update to this industry-standard graphics/compute API with just a handful of issues resolved but it does introduce one new extension, which is a NVIDIA vendor extension aiming to further enhance Vulkan ray-tracing...
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      Intel Releases GPGMM v0.1 GPU Memory Management Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March, 2023

    Intel has published v0.1 of its GPGMM software, the open-source General-Purpose GPU Memory Management Library. This library is intended to be used by modern software employing the Vulkan or D3D12 APIs for helping application developers deal with low-level video memory management...
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      OpenBLAS 0.3.22 Introduces EmScripten JavaScript, Fixes AMD Zen 4 Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March, 2023

    A new release of OpenBLAS is now available, the open-source BLAS and LAPACK implementation known for its wide variety of processor optimizations...
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      AMD Continues Linux Driver Enablement For Additional "Aldebaran" Instinct GPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    Over the weekend I wrote about AMD beginning to post new graphics driver patches for a new GPU. As pointed out in that earlier article, it looks to be a new AMD Instinct MI300 / "Aldebaran" GPU model and today more patches were posted that further confirm this target...
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      Pending RADV Driver Change Leads To Much Lower System RAM Use For Some Games

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    A pending change to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is leading to much lower system RAM use for some games that make use of many Vulkan Graphics Pipeline Libraries (GPL). The game causing this issue to be investigated was Valve's Dota 2 on RADV and is now seeing an 85% reduction in system RAM use by this open-source Radeon Linux driver...
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      Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Released For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Smartphones

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    Ubuntu Touch as the community maintained version of Ubuntu Linux for smartphones and tablets has for years been frustratingly limited to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as its base operating system for when Canonical had abandoned their smartphone ambitions. Today though that has finally changed with Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal having been released that moves things forward to an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base...
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      Intel Sapphire Rapids Performance With Google Cloud Compute Engine C3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    Back in October Google announced their Compute Engine C3 instances in private preview that featured 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors as well as making use of Google's custom Intel Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). Since then, back in January, was the big Sapphire Rapids launch with the likes of the Xeon Platinum 8490H being released. Last month meanwhile Google promoted the C3 VMs to public preview state. The Sapphire Rapids C3 VMs remain in "public preview" from Google Cloud during which time there are no charges involved for the CPU costs. For those wondering about the core-for-core performance of Sapphire Rapids in Google Cloud, here are my initial benchmarks of the C3 series.