For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, It's Generally Worthwhile Flipping On RADV's ACO
A premium supporter was asking this week whether for those newly-upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS if the graphics stack is in good enough shape or if I would recommend running Mesa 20.1-devel for better AMD Linux gaming performance... The short answer, sans any particular changes you are after in Mesa 20.1-devel, the bigger gain for running on this new Ubuntu release is to instead enable RADV+ACO as a much more pressing boost...
DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 Brings Interoperability With USB4
VESA announced today version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode specification...
Radeon Displayable DCC Gets Enabled For Navi 12 + Navi 14 GPUs
Adding to the last minute AMD Radeon additions for making the Mesa 20.1 feature cut-off is enabling displayable DCC support for Navi 12 and Navi 14 graphics processors...
Generic USB Display Driver Published For Linux - Allowing Nifty Possibilities With Raspberry Pi, Etc
Longtime Linux DRM developer Noralf Trønnes has written a new driver for Linux to serve generic USB display purposes. This driver was written following his idea of turning a Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB to HDMI display adapter...
17 Years Later: Intel 865 Chipset Seeing FBC Enabled On Linux
If you are still running any pre-Sandybridge Intel hardware, you should really consider upgrading to modern hardware for the performance and efficiency gains... But should you still be tied to an old i865-based system, there is an improvement coming in 2020 for Linux users...
Microsoft Releases Shader Conductor 0.3 For Its Shader Cross-Compiler
Back in 2018 Microsoft announced Shader Conductor as one of their newest open-source projects at the time for cross-compiling HLSL to other shading languages like GLSL. Out this morning is Shader Conductor v0.3...
Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" Released With Many Improvements For This Mobile Linux OS
Jolla announced today Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" as the newest version of their Linux-based smartphone platform...
Trinity Desktop Turns 10 Years Old As A Fork Of KDE 3.5 - Celebrates With New Release
The Trinity Desktop Environment is marking its tenth anniversary with a new release of this desktop forked from the KDE 3.5 code-base...
BLAKE3 Cryptographic Hashing Function Sees Experimental Vulkan Implementation
BLAKE3, the cryptographic hash function that advertises itself as being "much faster" than the likes of SHA1 and MD5 and its predecessor BLAKE2 while being more secure and highly parallelizable has seen an experimental implementation for GPU-based acceleration using the Vulkan API...
Intel Gen11+ Graphics See An Easy Bump On Mesa 20.1-devel
There's been a lot of interesting work hitting Mesa Git this week ahead of the Mesa 20.1 code branching and feature freeze. Merged this afternoon was a rather simple optimization benefiting Gen11 (Icelake) and newer for their open-source Vulkan driver, it's such a simple change it is almost surprising it took so long to benefit...