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AMD User Queue Support Merged For Linux - Submitting Work Directly To The GPU

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

After an exciting day yesterday of Vulkan 1.4 driver support arriving in Mesa 25.0 drivers, there is more exciting code that was merged today for Mesa 25.0: the AMDGPU code now allows for user queue support on the latest Linux kernels for submitting rendering work directly to the GPU hardware...

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AMD NPU Firmware Upstreamed For The Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Coming In Linux 6.14

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

With the AMDXDNA kernel driver for Ryzen AI NPU support on Linux now ready for merging and is queued in drm-misc-next for the Linux 6.14 kernel early next year, the AMD NPU firmware binaries have also now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for having the necessary firmware support in place...

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Rustls Multi-Threaded Performance Is Battering OpenSSL

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

The Rustls project as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and an alternative to the likes of the widely-used OpenSSL and Cloudflare's BoringSSL has published some new performance figures. When looking at the multi-threaded server performance of Rustls, its performance is typically outperforming BoringSSL by a significant margin and downright dominating over OpenSSL...

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NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.6 Brings CPU/GPU Performance Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

NVIDIA's RTX Remix software for remastering DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 era games is out with the newest version of the RTX-Remix runtime that is powered in part by DXVK for Direct3D to Vulkan mapping...

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PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

While long overdue, the PostgreSQL database server has finally deprecated MD5 password support with its latest code...

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Last Call For This Year's Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

If you would like to show your support this holiday season and enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits, today is the last day of the discounted rate on joining Phoronix Premium...

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FreeBSD 14.2 Released With OpenZFS Upgrade, Installer Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is out today as a strong, incremental update to the FreeBSD 14 series...

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NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 December, 2024

Years ago when new OpenGL spec releases would occur, it could take months or years for the open-source Mesa drivers to catch-up in supporting the latest versions... Thankfully in the Vulkan space it continues to prove to be a very different story. As we've seen with prior Vulkan specs, today's Vulkan 1.4 spec release is greeted by same-day Mesa patches...

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Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 December, 2024

Mir 2.19 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu/Canonical project making it easier for other desktops/environments to embrace Wayland support. This set of libraries for building Wayland-based shells has added a few new features with today's update...