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      Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Decoding For VP9

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

    David Airlie has managed to get some early code in place for handling VP9 video decoding with Vulkan using the Mesa RADV driver. This early Vulkan Video VP9 support also is accompanied by an FFmpeg branch supporting this experimental Mesa extension...
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      Linux 6.3-rc2 Released With Two AMD Workarounds, Drops The Useless r8188eu Driver

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

    The Linux 6.3-rc2 kernel is out today as the second weekly kernel test release since last weekend's closure of the Linux 6.3 merge window...
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      Linux 6.3-rc2 Introduces Stuttering Workaround For AMD Ryzen PCs Due To fTPM RNG

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

    Since the Linux 6.1 kernel various users have reported system stuttering issues when using modern AMD Ryzen systems. This has been similar to an "intermittent system stutter" issuye AMD disclosed last year for Windows 10 and Windows 11 while now for today's Linux 6.3-rc2 a workaround is finally being merged that in turn will also be back-ported to the stable kernel series...
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      GNOME 44 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Last Minute Changes

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

    The GNOME 44 release candidate was officially declared today as the last test version ahead of formally releasing the GNOME 44 desktop later this month...
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      Linux Landing XMM Register Rollback Workaround For AMD Zen 1 / Zen 2 CPUs

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

    Sent in this morning via x86/urgent for integration into Linux 6.3 and also for back-porting to stable kernel series is disabling the XSAVES instruction for AMD Zen 1 and Zen 2 processors to workaround an AMD processor erratum made public last year...
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      Linux 5.15.101 LTS Released To Fix Broken Intel Graphics At Boot

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

    Yesterday saw emergency hot-fix releases in the Linux 6.2 and 6.1 series for addressing an easy-to-trigger kernel oops when mounting and unmounting external storage. This weekend is proving more volatile with today bringing an emergency hot-fix release for the Linux 5.15 LTS series due to a separate issue...
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      Linux GMUX Support For T2 Macs On The Way For Dual-GPU Graphics Switching

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

    A set of patches are expected to be merged for the Linux 6.4 cycle in two months enable support for the MMIO-based GMUX found on dual GPU Apple T2 Macs...
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      Linux 6.4 To Remove Old Workaround For Running On Very Outdated Distributions

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

    Linux 6.4 is set to remove the old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 options that are used for running newer versions of the Linux kernel with very old Linux distributions and user-space tools. Pre 2007~2008 distributions as a result would likely run into trouble trying to run on Linux 6.4+ kernels...
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      SDL3 Introduces The Concept Of Child Popup Windows

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

    Development work on SDL3 continues at full-speed for the next version of this hardware/software abstraction library that is commonly used by cross-platform games. The newest feature merged is support for child pop-up windows...