Linux, Linux Foundation, Graphics, and BSD
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Qualcomm Rolls Out ~110k Lines Of New Kernel Code For Snapdragon 845 Display Support
Qualcomm in cooperation with Google developers and Rob Clark of Freedreno/MSM has sent out a set of kernel patches amounting to over 110,000 lines of new kernel code for the MSM DRM driver to bring-up display support for the SDM845.
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The Linux Foundation Launches Open FinTech Forum: AI, Blockchain, Kubernetes & Quantum on Wall Street
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the launch of a new event, Open FinTech Forum: AI, Blockchain, Kubernetes & Quantum on Wall Street (OFTF), taking place October 10-11, 2018 in New York City.
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i915 driver Panel Self Refresh (PSR) status update
The Intel graphics team has been working on a number of fixes which make PSR work better in various cases. Note we don't expect this to fix it everywhere, but it should get better and work on more devices in the near future.
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Intel 2017Q4 Graphics Stack Recipe Released
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X.Org Server 1.19.7 Is Being Prepared For Ubuntu With OutputClass Improvements
With the feature-packed X.Org Server 1.20 going to be too late to make it into the April release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, a new X.Org Server point release is being prepared by an Ubuntu developer that does include some basic new functionality.
Longtime Ubuntu X packager Timo Aaltonen has created a branch of what he's hoping to find in the next 1.19 point release, xorg-server 1.19.7.
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Intel Sends Out Initial Open-Source Mesa 3D Driver Patches For Ice Lake
One month ago Intel's Open-Source Technology Center began posting the initial Linux driver enablement for Icelake "Gen 11" graphics, the generation succeeding this year's Cannonlake "Gen 10" hardware. That initial work focused on the DRM kernel driver while now they have posted the first Mesa patches.
Out today are the first 16 patches for preparing Intel Ice Lake support within their i965 OpenGL driver. This comes in at just under four thousand new lines of code / XML headers. There still is about another 50% more code though needed before the Ice Lake Gen 11 support will be in place for this driver.
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dtrace for linux; Oracle does the right thing
At Fosdem we had a talk on dtrace for linux in the Debugging Tools devroom.
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DragonFlyBSD Adds New "Ptr_Restrict" Security Option
Just like the Linux developers, in the wake of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities DragonFlyBSD developers have also been working on a variety of security improvements.
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