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      Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    Igalia developers are working on extending the Broadcom V3D DRM kernel graphics driver, which is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi devices, to support the notion of "CPU jobs" in kernel space to assist in their Vulkan support. These CPU jobs are for assisting the support where their Broadcom GPU driver isn't capable of some Vulkan commands and thus needs to be punted off and handled by the processor...
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      CephFS Completes Multi-Year Effort Adding FSCRYPT Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    The Ceph changes were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window and with it comes one big shiny feature addition: support for making use of the FSCRYPT file-system encryption framework...
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      GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    The release candidates were tagged this morning of GNOME Shell and Mutter ahead of the "GNOME 45.rc" test release coming out within the next few days. With the release candidates are some last-minute changes worth mentioning...
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      AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    Last month AMD announced the Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT graphics cards while today these graphics cards go on sale for $449 and $499 USD, respectively. Today also marks the review embargo lift so I'm now able to talk about the Linux support and performance for these new RDNA3 graphics cards that are designed for 1440p gaming,
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      AMD Preferred Core Patches Updated For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    On the AMD CPU side of the house, one of the patch series we are looking forward to seeing upstreamed in the Linux kernel is the AMD Preferred Core functionality that was initially sent out this summer. This AMD Preferred Core handling is built onto the AMD P-State driver and has been undergoing a few rounds of iteration with the latest "v5" patches having been posted this week...
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      FUSE Adds Initial Support For Statx, File Birth Times For File-Systems In User-Space

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    The Linux 6.6 FUSE driver code for enabling file-systems in user-space is adding support for STATX to the protocol as part of focusing on enabling file birth time "btime" support...
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      USB MIDI 2.0 Gadget Function Driver Merged For Linux 6.6, Lunar Lake USB Work

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates were merged this past weekend for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window...
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      Linux 6.6 char/misc Brings Intel PECI Updates, Sapphire Rapids Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 September, 2023

    Greg Kroah-Hartman last Friday sent out the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window that include the catch-all of different driver changes. This cycle the char/misc updates aren't particularly exciting but the Intel PECI updates do stand-out...
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      Intel Ready To Declare Meteor Lake Linux Graphics Driver Support Stable

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

    Ahead of Intel expecting to formally reveal more Meteor Lake processor details in the coming weeks, Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers are ready to declare the new integrated graphics stable with the upstream Linux kernel -- dropping the existing flag that treated them as experimental and not enabled by default unless passing a special kernel module parameter...