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      ASUS Armoury Driver Supports A Few More Laptops With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:40

    Merged back in Linux 6.19 was the ASUS Armoury driver to enhance support for the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and modern ASUS laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver enables various laptop features to be toggled under Linux and since its introduction it has continued expanding support for more ASUS devices. Ahead of Linux 7.0 coming out on Sunday, a few more devices are now supported by this upstream driver...
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      SiFive Raises $400M To Double Down On High Performance RISC-V For Data Centers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:14

    RISC-V processor IP purveyor SiFive just announced they have raised $400 million USD in an over-subscribed Series G financing round. This latest funding is so they can further focus on delivering high performance RISC-V designs for the data center...
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      RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:51

    In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place "XIP" kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on RISC-V as well as some other optimized functions...
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      Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:15

    Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of dedicated vRAM, the patches now available -- initially on CachyOS for a nice out-of-the-box experience -- provide a noticeably better Linux gaming experience...
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      FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated 360 Degree Video Conversion

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:26

    Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...
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      AMD Making It Easier To Embed Lemonade AI Capabilities Into Other Apps

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:18

    The open-source Lemonade local AI server that enables using Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux for LLM usage as well as AMD Radeon GPU support and common x86_64 CPU support (in addition to Microsoft Windows support) is now becoming easier to embed within other apps for AI usage...
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      RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:53

    The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week...
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      Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:37

    Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical's Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This "hackable" and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a WebAssembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well as a new Rust API with this week's v0.9 release...
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      Linux 7.0 Adds Support For New Keys On Upcoming Laptops For Expanded AI Agent Interactions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:50

    Since last year the Linux kernel already supported the Microsoft Copilot key appearing on recent laptops to trigger AI agent interactions. That keyboard key is becoming more common but now three additional new keys have been standardized for additional AI integration on future PCs. Merged today for Linux 7.0 is supporting those new standardized keycodes for AI use...