Intel's "big joiner" support with Ice Lake / Gen11 and newer is for allowing two pipes to drive a single transcoder. The main focus of big joiner is for being able to drive an 8K display (at 30Hz or 60Hz,
Intel "Big Joiner" Enabling Nearly Squared Away For Allowing 8K Output On A Single Port
Intel's "big joiner" support with Ice Lake / Gen11 and newer is for allowing two pipes to drive a single transcoder. The main focus of big joiner is for being able to drive an 8K display (at 30Hz or 60Hz,
AMD Radeon Graphics Updates For Linux 5.11 Bring New Hardware, Other Enhancements
Among the highlights for this early feature code queuing up for the Linux 5.11 kernel cycle includes:
- Initial support for next-gen Van Gogh APUs. AMD published Van Gogh graphics support at the end of September while it is coming with Linux 5.11. Van Gogh is expected to be a combination of Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA2
Intel Lands Vulkan Ray-Tracing Prep Work In Mesa 20.3
The Mesa 20.3 code branching is imminent and merged as of writing has just been patches to prep the infrastructure for allowing Intel's "ANV" Vulkan driver to support ray-tracing but not the actual
SDL2 Adds Sony PlayStation 5 Controller Support
Sam Lantinga of Valve has added support for the PlayStation 5 controller mappings to SDL2 plus necessary joystick code changes.
Merged this evening was initial support for the Sony PS5 controller to this open-source library that is widely used by cross-platform games for abstracting various hardware/software functionality. With this PlayStation 5 controller support all of the buttons and other functionality
"Project X" - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen
Ron Minnich of Google who has been one of the original developers to Coreboot/LinuxBIOS has been engaged in "Project X" for providing "pure open-source" support on AMD Zen platforms.
Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X + Ryzen 9 5950X Dominate On Linux
The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X are hands-down incredible winners. While processor company marketing claims are sometimes dubious and not necessarily relevant to Linux users and their open-source workloads/software, after testing the Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X the past several weeks the performance has been incredibly compelling with significant single and multi-threaded performance uplift over Zen 2 and easily thrashing Intel's current desktop offerings with over 200
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X Linux Gaming Performance
After just publishing the results of 200+ Linux benchmarks under many diverse workloads for the Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X we see the 16~20% performance lift is very real and very broad from obscure open-source niche software through high profile programs... What about the Linux gaming performance? This article offers a first look at the Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X Linux gaming performance compared to Zen 2 and
Linux 5.11 Will Play Nicely With The Sega Saturn Controllers Connected Via USB Adapter
Raising eyebrows this morning was seeing in HID-next a commit mentioning HID: add support for Sega Saturn . What the heck is a kernel being released in 2021 doing with the Sega Saturn from more than two decades prior?
The commit is adding a USB HID quirk (HID_QUIRK_MULTI
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Can Now Run The Zink OpenGL Translation Layer
The excitement last month was V3DV being merged for Mesa 20.3 while the latest V3DV news is the Zink Gallium3D code is now running on it. Igalia engineers implemented a few optional Vulkan extensions for their driver that were missing but needed by Zink: logic operatons, alpha-to-one, and VK_KHR_maintenance1
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.3 Vulkan Driver Released
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.3 is a small update and the only official changes are enabling VK_EXT_robustness2 support for pre-Vega/GFX9 GPUs and updating against the Vulkan 1.2.158 API. There