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Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed support for VDPAU acceleration...

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Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

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openSUSE Disabling Bcachefs Support For Its Linux 6.17+ Kernel Builds

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

Linus Torvalds recently marked Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and isn't merging any new Bcachefs code for the time being but for now at least is keeping the existing Bcachefs code in-tree for anyone that has been relying on this experimental CoW file-system from prior kernel versions. OpenSUSE announced today though they are resorting to disabling the kernel driver in their Linux 6.17+ builds...

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Intel Fixes Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Performance Issues For Linux Ahead Of Launch

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

A set of 14 patches were merged today to the Mesa 3D graphics driver codebase for fixing some wide-reaching performance issues that would have negatively affected the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. The patches have been merged so will be very important that anyone buying an upcoming Intel Panther Lake laptop move to using an up-to-date Mesa to avoid these performance problems...

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Hyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor...

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Zink Begins Optimizing For Workstation Graphics With SPECViewPerf: Doubles The Perf

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver is well optimized for Linux gaming and desktop use thanks to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz being funded by Valve. Zink has even worked with OpenCL thanks to Rusticl and now another frontier is being conquered for this generic OpenGL on Vulkan driver: workstation graphics with optimizing around the SPECViewPerf test cases...

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Pogocache 1.2 Now Uses Microsoft's Mimalloc By Default: "Excellent Performance"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

Pogocache is the open-source fast caching software built from scratch that is optimized for low latency and CPU scalability/efficiency. Pogocache claims to outperform Memcached, Valkey, Redis, and other alternatives. Out today is Pogocache 1.2 as the newest feature release for this fast cache...

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Linux Looking To Finally Kill Off HIGHPTE Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

Linux kernel developers are evaluating the idea of removing HIGHPTE support from the Linux kernel due to its maintenance burden and just one ARM system currently using it...

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The Newest DRM Display Driver Being Worked On For Linux: "Yhgch"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 September

The newest Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display driver that has been in the works for the Linux kernel is "Yhgch" from Inspur...

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