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Linux 4.3 Is Near With Its Polished Intel Skylake Support & More

While there was still a fair amount of code churn this week, if Linus remains comfortable with the state of the kernel, Linux 4.3 will be released this weekend.
AMD Stoney APU Support Is Going Into The Linux 4.4 Kernel

Alex Deucher sent in another pull request of new AMDGPU/Radeon DRM material for landing in DRM-Next to in turn make it into Linux 4.4.
Intel Is Working On Faster Linux Encryption For AVX2 CPUs, Up To 5.8x Throughput

Intel has published a new set of patches fpr speeding up AES-CBC encryption for processors having the AVX2 instruction set extension.
Mesa's DRI3 Support For EGL Still Baking, The State Of DRI3 For X.Org Drivers

Martin Peres at Intel has sent out the latest revised patches for supporting Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3 (DRI3) with EGL.
PRIME Synchronization Is Still Being Worked On To Fix Tearing

Alex Goins of NVIDIA posted the patches yesterday evening as version two of PRIME synchronization for the i915 DRM. The patches aren't big but will hopefully fix tearing for those using PRIME on dual GPU systems.
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ARB_shader_clock Lands For Intel's Mesa Driver

The Mesa i965 DRI driver enables ARB_shader_clock support for Intel Ivy Bridge "Gen 7" graphics and newer. This work will be part of Mesa 11.1.
Intel Broadwell/Skylake Graphics Performance For Steam Linux Gaming

Complementing yesterday's Are The Open-Source Graphics Drivers Good Enough For Steam Linux Gaming? article is a look at the Steam Linux gaming performance for three different Intel Linux systems running Ubuntu 15.10 and firing up the latest Steam client. This is the last of the planned series that began one week ago with the a 22-way comparison of NVIDIA/AMD GPUs on SteamOS.
CPU/GPU Usage Between NVIDIA & AMD Linux Drivers

Following the 4K AMD/NVIDIA High-End GPU Comparison On SteamOS Linux and 22-Way Comparison Of NVIDIA/AMD Graphics Cards On SteamOS For Steam Linux Gaming articles, a few Phoronix readers were inquiring about the CPU and GPU utilization metrics during testing.

So I started work on some follow-up tests to look at the CPU/GPU utilization during testing to try to answer that question. The Phoronix Test Suite is able to do so by simply setting MONITOR=cpu.usage,gpu.usage as an environment variable prior to running any benchmarks (or see phoronix-test-suite system-sensors or MONITOR=all for the other system sensors supported through Phodevi - The Phoronix Device Interface).
Nouveau Adds ARB_copy_image, Intel Adds Another OpenGL 4.3 Extension Too
The Size Of The Different Open-Source Linux DRM/Mesa Graphics Drivers

As there's been some discussion lately about the "size" of the different open-source Linux graphics drivers, here are some fresh looks at the rough code size of each of the main DRM/KMS kernel drivers as well as the Mesa/Gallium3D user-space drivers.
Are The Open-Source Graphics Drivers Good Enough For Steam Linux Gaming?

Over the past week on Phoronix have been several featured articles looking at the performance of SteamOS with the proprietary AMD/NVIDIA graphics drivers: 22-Way Comparison Of NVIDIA/AMD Graphics Cards On SteamOS, 4K AMD/NVIDIA High-End GPU Comparison On SteamOS, and Is SteamOS Any Faster Than Ubuntu 15.10 Linux? One of the frequent questions that have come up since then is how the open-source driver performance compares to that of the binary blobs on SteamOS, so here are some of those benchmarks.

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