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      Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:09

    It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
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      AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:53

    Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
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      Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:12

    Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...
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      Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:33

    Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...
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      OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:18

    The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...
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      Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:59

    Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support...
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      Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:37

    Early AMD Radeon Graphics Core Next "GCN" GPUs are seeing work to improve the GPU recovery process in the event of hangs. This work is yet another improvement for older AMD GPUs being led by Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team...
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      zlib-rs 0.6.4 Released With Fix For Intel Raptor Lake Crash, SIMD Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    As a follow-up to last week's article around Firefox leveraging zlib-rs and some nice upstream improvements to this Rust-based Zlib implementation, the zlib-rs 0.6.4 release is now available to ship all of these latest enhancements...
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      Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC...