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      RADV Ray-Tracing Monolithic Pipelines Support Merged For Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support in its ray-tracing (RT) code path for monolithic pipelines...
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      GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 Released For This Coreboot/Libreboot Fork

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    The first release candidate of the inaugural GNU Boot has been released with users sought to try out this fork of Libreboot that in turn is derived from Coreboot...
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      Linux 6.6-rc1 Released With EEVDF, AMD DBC & Intel Shadow Stack But No Bcachefs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September, 2023

    The Linux 6.6 merge window is over as the period by which new features and improvements are added to the kernel. Linux 6.6-rc1 is out the door as the kernel developers and testing community begin stabilizing this next major Linux kernel release. With Linux 6.6 there are many exciting feature additions but also one notable addition that once again didn't make the cut...
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      DRM CI Merged Into Linux 6.6 - Linus Torvalds: "Let's See Where It Goes"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September, 2023

    In addition to all the open-source kernel graphics/display driver updates for Linux 6.6, merged this afternoon ahead of the Linux 6.6-rc1 tagging is merging of the DRM continuous integration (CI) code to hopefully lead to better testing of DRM subsystem/driver changes...
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      Linux 6.6 WQ Change May Help Out AMD CPUs & Other Systems With Multiple L3 Caches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September, 2023

    In addition to the EEVDF scheduler replacing the CFS code in Linux 6.6, another fundamental and interesting change with Linux 6.6 is on the workqueue (WQ) side with a rework that can benefit systems with multiple L3 caches like modern AMD chiplet-based systems...
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      Linux 6.6 SMB Client To Allow Adjusting Cache Time For Directory Contents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September, 2023

    With Linux 6.6 the KSMBD server is no longer "experimental" while this new kernel on the SMB3 client side also brings a notable addition: the new "dir_cache_timeout" option to control the cache time for directory contents...
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      Mesa 23.3 Fixes Zink Rendering For X.Org/XWayland GLAMOR

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September, 2023

    Mike Blumenkrantz working for Valve's Linux graphics driver team has added implicit sync support to the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver, which in turn now opens this generic driver up for correctly providing GLAMOR rendering with X11 and XWayland environments...
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      Linux 6.6 Allowing Per-Policy CPUFreq Performance Boost Control

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September, 2023

    While last week saw the main set of power management updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel, this week a follow-on pull request was submitted -- and merged -- with a few last minute additions...
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      RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September, 2023

    More RISC-V architecture updates were merged this weekend for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window...