Phoronix on Graphics
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Nouveau User-Space Lands Support For Using New Kernel Interfaces
Following the latest Mesa and libdrm patches last week for allowing the Nouveau Gallium3D code to take advantage of the Nouveau DRM kernel driver's new interfaces, that work has now landed.
With Linux 4.3 was the big restructuring to the Nouveau DRM driver. The massive changes were to improve the driver's design, reduce memory usage, provide for faster GPU VM, and allow for future improvements.
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Mir 0.18 Release Brings Prep Work For Vulkan, Libinput By Default
Mir 0.18 brings prep work for Vulkan, latency improvements for nested servers, hardware-accelerated multimedia decode optimizations, the start of plugin renderer support, Xmir graphics corruption fixes, using libinput by default for input handling, and many bug fixes.
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More Intel Kabylake Enablement Coming To Linux 4.5
The final feature pull request has been sent in of the Intel DRM graphics driver for targeting the Linux 4.5 kernel.
Intel's Open-Source Technology Center team has already sent in multiple i915 DRM updates for Linux 4.5 while Daniel Vetter, Intel's DRM maintainer, sent in the final pull request this morning for getting the code aligned into DRM-Next.
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NVIDIA Open-Source Christmas Present: Some Documentation
It seems a few days ago NVIDIA quietly released some documentation to help open-source driver developers working on Nouveau.
Last week was this GitHub pull request from a NVIDIA developer for providing documentation on Maxwell's texture header format and additions to the existing Fermi/Kepler/older documentation.
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New AMD GPU Performance To Be Boosted By Linux 4.5; How It Compares To The Binary Blob
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An Ubuntu Kernel To Play With The New AMDGPU + Radeon 4.5 Features
If you are anxious to help test out the new changes of the Radeon and AMDGPU kernel drivers that will be added to Linux 4.5, I've spun up a kernel for Ubuntu x86_64 systems to try out this experimental code.
Last night I spun an Ubuntu x86_64 kernel build against Alex Deucher's drm-next-4.5 branch, which includes the Radeon and AMDGPU driver changes for DRM-Next to then go mainline during the Linux 4.5 merge window.
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How To Use AMDGPU PowerPlay On The Linux 4.5 Kernel
While Linux 4.5 brings support for PowerPlay in the AMDGPU DRM driver to allow the modern discrete Radeon graphics cards to run much faster thanks to re-clocking, this major feature isn't being enabled by default for Linux 4.5.
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AMDGPU/Radeon For Linux 4.5 Drops UMS Support, Brings Optimizations
Just minutes after writing about how AMDGPU PowerPlay support made it into AMD's drm-next-4.5 branch, that Git branch is now called for pulling into DRM-Next. Besides the PowerPlay support for the latest Radeon GPUs, there are also a number of other changes.
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AMDGPU PowerPlay Code Gets Readied For Linux 4.5
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PowerVR SDK 4.0 Released, Preps Developers For Vulkan
Prominent to PowerVR Graphics SDK 4.0 is a new framework for helping developers move from OpenGL ES to Vulkan. Vulkan isn't being released until sometime in 2016 but with being a Khronos member, Imagination has been heavily involved and investing in Khronos with their SDK along with their various seminars about Vulkan.
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Daily Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux Begin
If you missed my overview from a few days back, see Getting Started With Intel's Clear Linux High-Performance Distribution. Clear Linux is a distribution primarily intended for servers with running container-ized applications and other cloud applications. You can learn more at ClearLinux.org.
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