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Initial Rust DRM Abstractions, AGX Apple DRM Driver Posted For Review

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

After being in development for several months, Asahi Lina with the Asahi Linux project has posted the initial Rust Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem abstractions for review as well as a preview of the experimental state of the AGX DRM driver providing the open-source kernel graphics driver support for Apple M1/M2 hardware...

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Intel Preparing IAA Crypto Compression Driver - Kernel Crypto API Use For Accelerators

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

In addition to Intel's Linux patches in recent days working on broad performance optimizations that can benefit all hardware there has also been some Intel-specific kernel improvements being worked on like the Sapphire Rapids C0.2 idle state support that was published for review on Monday. Also coming out from the covers on Monday was a new patch series for the "iaa_crypto" driver to improve the Linux support for Intel's In-Memory..

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GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

The GNOME Shell and Mutter release candidates ahead of this month's GNOME 44 desktop update are now available for testing...

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AMD's Suballocator Helper Gets Ready To Help Intel's New Xe Linux Graphics Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

With the Linux 6.3-rc1 kernel now out and that closing the Linux 6.3 merge window, the open-source Linux graphics driver developers are turning their attention to feature work they want to accomplish for Linux 6.4 this summer. Already the first drm-misc-next pull request has been submitted to DRM-Next with some of those early changes that will target the v6.4 kernel...

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Coreboot Adds Support For An ASRock Sandy/Ivy Bridge Era Mini ITX Board

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

For those that happen to have an ASRock B75M-ITX in their collection or have just been looking for an old Intel Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge era system that can run the open-source Coreboot firmware, this mini-ITX desktop motherboard can run upstream Coreboot with the latest changes made this week...

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Intel Preparing Sapphire Rapids C0.2 Idle State Support For Better Energy Efficiency

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

Posted today were a set of Linux kernel patches for enabling Sapphire Rapids C0.x idle states support, which can provide a nice bump to the energy efficiency of the latest-generation Xeon Scalable servers while also helping out with possible turbo boost benefits for the busy CPU cores to enhance overall system performance...

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FEX 2303 Released For Improving Linux x86_64 Gaming On ARM64

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

FEX-Emu 2303 was published today as the newest version of this open-source software for enjoying x86 64-bit Linux software to run gracefully on 64-bit ARM (ARM64 / AArch64) including the likes of Linux games and Valve's Steam client with Steam Play (Proton)...

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Linux 6.3 Features: AMD Auto IBRS To Steam Deck Controller Interface, IPv4 BIG TCP & More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

Now that the Linux 6.3 merge window is over with Linux 6.3-rc1 having been released last night, here is a look at all of the interesting changes, new features, and hardware support coming with this next major kernel version.

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Debian APT 2.6 Released With Updates For Non-Free Firmware Handling

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

Debian developers today released APT 2.6 as the newest version of this package manager that will ship as part of the upcoming Debian 12 "Bookworm" release...