Graphics Leftovers (from Phoronix)
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Mesa 10.6.8 Is Focused On Nouveau Fixes
For those that haven't yet moved to Mesa 11.0 and aren't riding on Mesa 11.1-devel Git, Mesa 10.6.8 is now the next best thing.
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Intel Might Be Moving Closer With Their Mesa Tessellation Shader Support
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Intel's Mesa Driver Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 Texture Barrier
One month after the Gallium3D drivers gained support for this extension, the Intel i965 driver now handles OpenGL 4.5's ARB_texture_barrier.
Prolific Mesa contributor Ilia Mirkin has added ARB_texture_barrier to i965 today. ARB_texture_barrier is identical to the NV_texture_barrier extension and was another easy extension for Ilia to implement.
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Mesa 11's First Point Release Is Now Available
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The State Of Nouveau; Still Waiting On NVIDIA To Release Firmware
NVIDIA's interest in Nouveau mostly is on the mobile side with Tegra. Alexandre shared that the GM20B Tegra X1 work continues to be upstreamed, re-clocking and power management will come to the Tegra X1B soon, advanced features are planned, and a signed firmware release is imminent. With being based on the Maxwell GPU, the Tegra X1 is also plagued by needing signed firmware.
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Intel Has Been Working On DRM Color Management Support
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Doing Graphics Hardware Acceleration With Microkernels
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Updated Firmware Blobs Out For Intel Skylake & Broxton Linux Graphics
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Mir Is Making Measurable Progress On Using Libinput
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NVIDIA's Latest Binary Driver Is Causing Problems For Some Skylake Linux Users
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New Version Of The Etnaviv DRM Graphics Driver Published For Review
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The Etnaviv Open-Source Driver Is Quietly Making Progress
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AMD Has A Vulkan Linux Driver, But Will Be Closed-Source At First
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AMD Releases New Open-Source Audio Support, ACP Driver
ASoC audio support patches have been published for AMD GPUs.
Alex Deucher sent out the new Radeon audio patches today while the actual patches were done by an AMD developer we haven't seen anything major from before: Maruthi Bayyavarapu. The five patches add ASoC support for AMD APUs and includes a new ACP (Audio Co-Processor) driver.
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Wayland's Weston 1.10 Is Off To The Races With New Feature Work
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Wayland 1.9 Tagged For Release
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Wayland 1.10 Now Under Development, Planned Release In February
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The OpenGL ARB Shader Storage Buffer Object Lands For Intel Mesa
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What's New With The X.Org Foundation? Not Too Much
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The X.Org Foundation Has A New Secretary
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Keith Packard Talks About Sustaining X11's Development
While many users and developers out there are looking for a time when Wayland rules the Linux desktop, Keith Packard remains focused on bettering X11/X.Org and keeping it going.
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Two X.Org Vintage Drivers Finally Ship With X Server 1.17 Support
X.Org Server 1.17 was released back in February while finally today two X.Org DDX drivers are finally shipping xorg-server 1.17 support in released form.
The new driver updates this weekend are xf86-video-s3virge 1.10.7 and xf86-video-chips 1.2.6. These releases were done by Matt Turner who has still been caring for some of these X.Org drivers for obsolete graphics processors.
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Alexander Larsson: Playing games with runtime extensions
I hope to have stable builds out of the Freedesktop 1.2 and Gnome 3.18 runtimes shortly, so that other people can play with them. Unfortunately I’m not allowed to distribute the unreal editor app.
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