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      Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:45

    In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver...
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      "Toolpak" Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS...
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      MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks...
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      AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc5 release...
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      Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots...
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      AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what's found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma 6.9...
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      New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches...
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      GDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more...