UEFI Boot Support Published For RISC-V On Linux
As we've been expecting to happen with the Linux EFI code being cleaned up before the introduction of a new architecture, the RISC-V patches have been posted for bringing up UEFI boot support...
Intel Continues Bring-Up Of New Gateway SoC Architecture On Linux, ComboPHY Driver
Besides all the usual hardware enablement activities with the usual names by Intel's massive open-source team working on the Linux kernel, one of the more peculiar bring-ups recently has been around the "Intel Gateway SoC" with more work abound for Linux 5.7...
Game Porting Firm Feral Interactive's Days Could Be Numbered With Compulsory Strike-Off
Prominent Linux and macOS game porting firm Feral Interactive looks like it may be dissolving, (edit) but fortunately turned out to be an accounting error...
SHADERed 1.3 Released For This HLSL/GLSL Shader Editor - Adds Shader Debugger
SHAREDed is an open-source, cross-platform solution for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders. This "shader IDE" is out this week with SHADERed 1.3 that presents new capabilities...
Linux Kernel Seeing Patches For NVIDIA's Proprietary Tegra Partition Table
As an obstacle for upstreaming some particularly older NVIDIA Tegra devices (namely those running Android) is that they have GPT entry at the wrong location or lacking at all for boot support. That missing or botched GPT support is because those older devices make use of a NVIDIA proprietary/closed-source table format. As such, support for this proprietary NVIDIA Tegra Partition Table is being worked on for the Linux kernel to provide better upstream kernel support on these consumer devices...
Monado OpenXR Runtime v0.1 Released For Open-Source XR Stack
Announced last March was Monado as an open-source implementation of OpenXR, the Khronos standard for AR/VR. Today marks the first release of Monado as version 0.1 so while it's still early on it is showing much progress...
Intel Boosts Gen7 GPU Vulkan Compute Performance By ~330% For Geekbench
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux doesn't see much attention for pre-Broadwell hardware but today it saw a big improvement for Vulkan compute on aging Gen7 Ivybridge/Haswell era hardware...
Intel Has Accumulated 400+ Graphics Driver Patches So Far For Linux 5.7
Intel just sent out their initial pull request of new feature changes/improvements to DRM-Next that in turn is for landing in about one month's time when the Linux 5.7 merge window kicks off. With taking longer than usual to send in their first round of feature updates, this first of several pull requests already amounts to over 400 patches...
Free Software Foundation Aims To Launch Code Hosting / Collaboration Platform This Year
The Free Software Foundation is planning to launch their own public code hosting and collaboration platform in 2020...
OnLogic Teasing EPYC Edge Servers, Rolling Out More Ryzen Mini PCs
Linux-friendly industrial PC vendor OnLogic has announced an expanded line-up of their mini PC offerings with Ryzen Embedded processors and also word that next quarter they will be getting into EPYC-powered edge servers...