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Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (254+ words) Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely…...
Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (186+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded…...
Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (212+ words) Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits…...
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (214+ words) Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve's Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game…...
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (195+ words) As a last minute change ahead of next week's GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating…...
NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (187+ words) NVIDIA today debuted the 615.71.09 Linux driver that comes with a number of improvements, especially from the Vulkan API perspective... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With…...
Experimental Patches Get Nouveau+NVK Working On NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (205+ words) Red Hat's David Airlie has managed another open-source graphics engineering feat... Getting the Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel graphics driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver running on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with the DGX Spark system... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards…...
New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (247+ words) 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…...
LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (216+ words) 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,…...
Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (208+ words) Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards…...