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AMD Working On VirtIO GPU & Passthrough GPU Support For Xen Virtualization

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

AMD is working to enable VirtIO GPU and pass-through GPU support for the Xen virtualization hypervisor with Radeon graphics...

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Intel Sends Out Sixteenth Round Of Linux LAM Patches

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

Intel's Linux engineers continue working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) for making use of untranslated address bits of 64-bit linear addresses so that it can be used for arbitrary metadata. The hope is that this LAM metadata can lead to more efficient address sanitizers, optimizations for JITs and VMs, and more, but it's been a lengthy journey getting the support upstreamed...

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Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Decoding For VP9

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

David Airlie has managed to get some early code in place for handling VP9 video decoding with Vulkan using the Mesa RADV driver. This early Vulkan Video VP9 support also is accompanied by an FFmpeg branch supporting this experimental Mesa extension...

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Linux 6.3-rc2 Released With Two AMD Workarounds, Drops The Useless r8188eu Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

The Linux 6.3-rc2 kernel is out today as the second weekly kernel test release since last weekend's closure of the Linux 6.3 merge window...

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Linux 6.3-rc2 Introduces Stuttering Workaround For AMD Ryzen PCs Due To fTPM RNG

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March, 2023

Since the Linux 6.1 kernel various users have reported system stuttering issues when using modern AMD Ryzen systems. This has been similar to an "intermittent system stutter" issuye AMD disclosed last year for Windows 10 and Windows 11 while now for today's Linux 6.3-rc2 a workaround is finally being merged that in turn will also be back-ported to the stable kernel series...

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GNOME 44 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Last Minute Changes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March, 2023

The GNOME 44 release candidate was officially declared today as the last test version ahead of formally releasing the GNOME 44 desktop later this month...

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Linux Landing XMM Register Rollback Workaround For AMD Zen 1 / Zen 2 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March, 2023

Sent in this morning via x86/urgent for integration into Linux 6.3 and also for back-porting to stable kernel series is disabling the XSAVES instruction for AMD Zen 1 and Zen 2 processors to workaround an AMD processor erratum made public last year...

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Linux 5.15.101 LTS Released To Fix Broken Intel Graphics At Boot

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March, 2023

Yesterday saw emergency hot-fix releases in the Linux 6.2 and 6.1 series for addressing an easy-to-trigger kernel oops when mounting and unmounting external storage. This weekend is proving more volatile with today bringing an emergency hot-fix release for the Linux 5.15 LTS series due to a separate issue...

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Linux GMUX Support For T2 Macs On The Way For Dual-GPU Graphics Switching

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March, 2023

A set of patches are expected to be merged for the Linux 6.4 cycle in two months enable support for the MMIO-based GMUX found on dual GPU Apple T2 Macs...