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UEFI SBAT Support Coming Together Ahead Of Linux 6.17

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June

Support for UEFI Secure Boot Advanced Targeting "SBAT" looks like it could be buttoned up in the mainline kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle...

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RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension...

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AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June

Over the past three days the new AMD "GFX1250" GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

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IceWM 3.8 Brings New Optimizations & Changes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June

For those preferring an X11-based desktop experience on Linux, IceWM 3.8 released on Sunday as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager focused on speed and simplicity...

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Linux 6.16-rc3 Released: Various Bug Fixes While Bcachefs Changes Not Pulled

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.16-rc3 in marching toward the Linux 6.16 kernel release due out around late July...

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More Intel TDX Code Merged For KVM In Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June

Merged minutes ago ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc3 release due out shortly was this week's batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates. Beyond the usual KVM fixes merged for the week, a bit of feature code was pulled in by Linus Torvalds for this post-merge-window phase...

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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance...

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3mdeb Carries Out Experimental Port Of AMD OpenSIL To Zen 1 Platform

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June

The 3mdeb firmware consulting firm recently hosted another one of their virtual events about open-source firmware and beer. There they talked about AMD's ongoing work around OpenSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization. In addition, they shared work on an experimental port of OpenSIL back to Zen 1 processors...

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KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 June

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

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