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DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 October, 2024

DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options. The AMDGPU driver has new patches available for expanding the DRM_Panic support to all DCE/DCN-based graphics cards...

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RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 October, 2024

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver used by all modern AMD Radeon graphics hardware has landed support in Mesa 24.3 for async VCE/UVD video operations to enhance the performance with the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library...

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VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 October, 2024

Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream...

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Wasmer 5.0 WebAssembly Runtime Released With V8, WAMR & WASMI Backends

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 October, 2024

Wasmer 5.0 is now available as the latest major update to this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime focused on being able to allow developers to write "universal apps" that will run anywhere thanks to the power and versatility of WebAssembly...

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Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Initial AI Feature

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 October, 2024

Shotcut 24.10 is now available as the latest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT framework, Qt6, FFmpeg, SDL, and other software components...

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Intel Posts Updated Raptor Lake Microcode For Linux: Fixes Voltage Issue & Other Bugs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 October, 2024

Intel off their typical second Tuesday of the month patch regiment today posted new CPU microcode just for 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" and 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors for Linux systems. Notable with the updated Raptor Lake CPU microcode is the internal voltage handling fix for that well known problem plaguing many Raptor Lake owners plus two other fixes...

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Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 October, 2024

Following the rather bizarre blog post two weeks ago of laptop vendor MALIBAL suggesting not supporting Coreboot due to their frustrating experiences dealing with Coreboot consulting firms, the Coreboot project itself has now issued a response...

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Linux Use On Microsoft Azure Crosses 60%, AlmaLinux Now An Endorsed Distro

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 October, 2024

For years there have been statements about how over half of the VMs running within the Microsoft Azure public cloud are Linux-based... In a new blog post today is the first time I am seeing Microsoft cite now "over 60%" Linux marketshare on Microsoft's cloud...

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Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 October, 2024

CVE-2024-9632 was made public today as the latest security vulnerability affecting the X.Org Server. The CVE-2024-9632 security issue has been present in the codebase now for 18 years and can lead to local privilege escalation...