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      KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:55

    Merged today to the latest KDE KWin compositor development code is support for Wayland's important commit-timing protocol that is useful for video playback as well as for gamers relying on Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync support...
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      The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:06

    For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
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      DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Released - Now With AI Assistant Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:58

    For those using the Linux-friendly DaVinci Resolve video editing and color correction/grading and visual effects software, DaVinci Resolve 21.1 is out today as a major update to this cross-platform solution...
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      CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:52

    CHUWI recently launched the UniBook laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 304 "Wildcat Lake" SOC and priced at just $449 USD. Especially with today's high component pricing, a brand new sub-$500 laptop is extremely rare. Rather than using some dated SoC, it uses Wildcat Lake as Intel's new value option alternative to the Core 3 Series Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. This was our first time testing out Intel Wildcat Lake and that SoC plus the overall CHUWI UniBook has been working out well on Linux for those looking at a laptop in the sub-$500 space.
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      New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:11

    It turns out one of the feature limitations of the AMDGPU Linux graphics driver is HDMI 1.4 3D output support with frame packing, top-and-bottom, and side-by-side options for transmitting simultaneous video streams. I wasn't aware of this limitation for the lack of any 3D displays and many Linux enthusiasts/gamers as well, but if you happen to have a compatible HDMI 1.4 3D display, there are pending patches to finally make this a reality...
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      Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:41

    Queued this past week into the net-next development tree of the latest networking additions for the Linux kernel is enabling support for Realtek's newer RTL8127atf and RTL8116af wired networking ASICs...
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      DirectX Support Promoted To Official Target Within LLVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:21

    Over the past four years there has been a lot of work on a DirectX back-end within the LLVM compiler stack. Microsoft has backed the initiative for being able to lower LLVM IR into the DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) for execution by Windows DirectX 12 graphics drivers. This back-end is now officially supported...
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      FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:09

    FEX 2609 was released overnight as the newest monthly feature release for this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Steam and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling Windows games to run rather well on ARM64 Linux systems...
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      LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:58

    With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...