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      Linux 6.6 MSM DRM Driver Preps For New Hardware, Overhead Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 August, 2023

    Googler Rob Clark on Sunday sent out the set of MSM DRM patches prepped for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. The MSM DRM driver is the kernel component for open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics that goes along with the Freedreno Gallium3D and TURNIP Vulkan drivers in Mesa for having a nice Qualcomm Linux graphics stack...
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      RADV Implements NVIDIA DGC Compute Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 August, 2023

    The VK_NV_device_generated_commands_compute extension introduced in Vulkan 1.3.258 is now wired up for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver and should further benefit VKD3D-Proton for Steam Play gaming...
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      More Linux Fixes/Cleanups Coming For AMD Inception/SRSO Mitigation Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 August, 2023

    Earlier this month when the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was disclosed the initial mitigation was merged to Linux kernel right away for what there is referred to as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). Within a day of that code being published there were already efforts to clean it up and merged last week for Linux 6.5-rc7 was that AMD Inception code cleaning. This week a new set of 22 patches were published for further improving the AMD Inception/SRSO mitigation code...
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      QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 August, 2023

    QEMU 8.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...
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      Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 August, 2023

    The AGX Gallium3D driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew for providing reverse-engineered OpenGL / GLES support on Apple Silicon M1/M2 hardware is now formally compliant with OpenGL ES 3.1...
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      Benchmarking Mercury As The "Fastest Firefox Fork" With AVX, AES, LTO + PGO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 August, 2023

    Following the news last week of Firefox outperforming Chrome in SunSpider, a Phoronix reader pointed out Mercury that is an open-source web browser claiming to be the "fastest Firefox fork" and making use of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and AES instructions along with compiler features like Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) and Profile-Guided Optimizations (PGO). The project advertises as being 8-20% faster than upstream Firefox. Curious I ran a couple benchmarks on my end of this Firefox fork.
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      Linux Microcode Loading For x86 32-bit CPUs Being Cleaned Up & Corrected

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 August, 2023

    Continuing to support x86 32-bit processors with the mainline Linux kernel continues to be a maintenance burden and uncovering ugly bits of code that are seldom touched. The latest work is on fixing up the 32-bit early microcode loading code so that it's more robust and actually correct...
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      NVIDIA 535.104.05 Fixes An Issue Using The Open Kernel Driver With SLI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 August, 2023

    While we are waiting on NVIDIA to roll out a beta of their next post-R535 Linux driver release stream, available today is the NVIDIA 535.104.05 Linux driver as their latest in this production driver branch...
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      Fwupd 1.9.4 Released With Linux Firmware Updating For More Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 August, 2023

    Richard Hughes of Red Hat has just released Fwupd 1.9.4 as the newest version of thus open-source software that goes along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making it easy to deploy new firmware/BIOS updates for systems and countless peripherals under Linux...