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GCC 15.1 Compiler Nears Release As Bugs Whittled Away

Current GNU Compiler Collection release manager Richard Biener of SUSE provided an update concerning the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...

2025-02-28 06:28

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RADV Driver Expands Use Of Performance-Helping DCC Fast Clears On RDNA3 GPUs

Just ahead of the AMD RDNA4 GPUs launching, the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has expanded a performance optimization technique for existing RDNA3 graphics processors...

2025-02-28 06:20

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AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 Released With Strix Halo Support

When seeing a new AMDVLK release was just tagged on GitHub and just a few hours to go until the Radeon RX 9070 series announcement, I was hoping it was going to be a new driver officially rolling out their new RDNA4 GPU support. Today's AMDVLK 2025.Q1....

2025-02-28 05:57

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Intel Posts Linux Kernel Patches For Supporting APX - Advanced Performance Extensions

Intel initially detailed Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) back in mid-2023 as extensions to double the number of general purpose registers and add other performance features. In the time since they have done a lot preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang ...

2025-02-27 15:40

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EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert

In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles...

2025-02-27 14:44

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Motion Control Subsystem Proposed For The Linux Kernel

A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today propose the introduction of a Linux Motion Control "LMC" subsystem for drivers that could control devices like CNC machines and 3D printers...

2025-02-27 13:30

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SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Receives Pleasant Facelift, Future Roadmap

SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and the...

2025-02-27 12:11

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NVIDIA 570.124.04 Linux Driver Brings Additional Fixes

Going into beta just under one month ago was the NVIDIA 570.86.16 Linux driver that brought initial support for GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics cards as well as Vulkan driver improvements, Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) support with multiple displays,...

2025-02-27 10:39

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FFmpeg Lands AV1 RTP Packetizer/Depacketizer

Merged yesterday to FFmpeg Git is an initial AV1 RTP packetizer and depacketizer in working to support the tentative AV1 RTP specification...

2025-02-27 10:08

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FreeBSD In Q4 Saw More Work For AMD Systems, Framework Laptops & PinePhone Pro

The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024...

2025-02-27 08:45

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Fish 4.0 Shell Released With Code Ported From C++ To Rust

Entering beta last year was the Fish Shell 4.0 release that migrated its codebase from C++ to Rust. Out today is the first stable 4.0 release for the Rust-ed version of the popular Fish Shell...

2025-02-27 08:24

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AMD Open-Sources GMLIB For RadeonSI Driver - Working On HDR Video Support

Merged today for Mesa 25.1 is introducing a new previously AMD-internal library to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver dubbed GMLIB. This GMLIB code is being used by RadeonSI in conjunction with Radeon GPUs having the Video Processing Engine (VPE...

2025-02-27 06:58

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x86 32-bit Changes Look To Be Ready For Linux 6.15 - Drops Support For More Than 4GB RAM

Over the past few months there's been an in-progress patch series by Arnd Bergmann for cleaning up the x86 32-bit kernel support for running on x86_64 CPUs. After the third iteration of the patches were posted this week, these x86 32-bit CPU clean-ups ...

2025-02-27 06:34

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Zink Working On A "Nice Performance Boost" For OpenCL / DaVinci Resolve

Mike Blumenkrantz as the lead developer of Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation and working for Valve as part of their Linux graphics team has been spending much time recently optimizing for OpenCL with the Rusticl Gallium3D driver...

2025-02-27 06:25

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Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface

Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system...

2025-02-26 13:57

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AMD EPYC Turin Power Profile Selection Impact On Performance & Efficiency

Last week I published an article looking at the power efficiency of 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" using the modern AMD P-State driver and the Power Profile options. The AMD P-State driver being used by default now for the EPYC 9005 series processors on Linu...

2025-02-26 11:00

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AMD Driver Lands DCC For Multi-Plane Formats With RDNA4, Tiling For Video Buffers

More RadeonSI Gallium3D changes worth mentioning have landed today in Mesa 25.1 Git for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack...

2025-02-26 08:55

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Intel Graphics Driver With Linux 6.15 To Allow Tuning The GuC Power Profile

Following the various Intel graphics driver feature updates sent out earlier this week in building up the new kernel graphics/display driver features for Linux 6.15, another prominent pull request was sent out yesterday with additional material...

2025-02-26 06:51

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FineIBT-BHI Looks To Be Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.15 To Provide Tougher Kernel Defenses

FineIBT-BHI as a means of tougher kernel defenses for fending off Branch History Injection (BHI) looks like it will be ready for upstreaming in next month's Linux 6.15 merge window...

2025-02-26 06:30

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Mesa's Vulkan WSI Now Supports Wayland Color Management

Adding to the flurry of open-source work recently around the merged Wayland color management protocol for supporting HDR, the Mesa Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) code has added support for this protocol...

2025-02-26 06:17

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