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      Mesa 26.3 Enables Intel's New Jay Shader Compiler By Default, Compile Times 55% Faster Or 66% Faster Than Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:31

    Over the past year Jay has been in development as a new open-source shader compiler for Intel GPUs. Alyssa Rosenzweig has been leading its development since joining Intel in 2025. For Mesa 26.3 the Jay shader compiler is being enabled by default for modern Intel graphics hardware and is around ~10% faster than the existing BRW compiler code...
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      BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:10

    BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers...
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      D7VK Reaches Maturity For Older Direct3D APIs Atop Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:43

    D7VK as a Vulkan-based implementation of the Microsoft Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs for Linux/Wine (Steam Play) usage is out with version 2.3 and the developer now believing its marking the point that the project is rather mature...
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      Large Folios Able To Deliver Big Performance Gains For FUSE With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:30

    Following the FUSE improvements in Linux 7.3 for file-systems in user-space, it looks like the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be ready to enable the large folios feature...
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      Igalia Improving The Firefox Experience For Valve's Steam Deck

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:15

    The Igalia consulting firm working with Valve is aiming to improve the Firefox web browsing experience when running on the Steam Deck handheld Linux-powered device...
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      AMD Ryzen Zen 6 CPU Power Values Being Further Tuned For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:59

    AMD engineers continue to prepare for upcoming Zen 6 powered Ryzen client processors on Linux...
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      "Shiva" Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:32

    Shiva is entering development for Mesa Vulkan drivers as a new framework akin to Gallium3D but for Vulkan drivers rather than OpenGL. It's going to be some time before the work will come to fruition but should hopefully lead to more code sharing and a better Mesa Vulkan driver development experience in the future...
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      NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls...
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      SIMDjson 5.0 Released: Still Making JSON Parsing Even Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    SIMDjson is the open-source, high performance JSON parser that surprisingly began making use of AVX-512 to deliver big performance gains years ago. SIMDjson has continued further refining itself to deliver even greater speeds and out today is SIMDjson 5.0...