NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver... phoronix.com/news/NVK-Kepler-V…
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs... phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT…
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driver
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Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17
The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments... phoronix.com/news/Intel-Enable…
Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin 'BTC' as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software o…
I loved NWN and NWN2 so this is definitely a title for me... at some point. But I just picked up Crisis Core Reunion, so it won't be before I am done with that.
Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software... phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.5-…
Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17
One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for supporting the new Broadcom wired networking hardware at up to 800 Gigabit speeds... phoronix.com/news/Broadcom-BCM…
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LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched
The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development... phoronix.com/news/LLVM-22-Star…
GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17
Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17... phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-g…
Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake
While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too... phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Vu…
Cyan bought a U-shaped pillow and she instantly fell asleep on it! I tried it and now she says every time she comes into the bedroom, there's a catgirl on it...
Today we slept with it until noon, and after lunch I lied down and she snuggled up. We woke up at 6:30 PM... It's too powerful!!!!
Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee… phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Dr…
Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux
As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel... phoronix.com/news/Google-Hapti…
RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)
Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf… phoronix.com/news/RADV-Experim…
The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging
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jk, but glad this is something cool for you! Be sure to check out the @UniversalBlue project if you haven't as they dive deep into that.