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Linux 6.7 Will Allow More Efficient Use With Intel QAT Gen4 Hardware

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With the Linux 6.7 kernel this winter there is a new feature coming to Intel’s QuickAssist Technology (QAT) device driver that will allow more efficient use with QAT Gen4 hardware such as the latest-generation Intel Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” processors…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Will Allow More Efficient Use With Intel QAT Gen4 Hardware

Linux's Multi-Grain Timestamps Short-Lived: Removed From The Kernel After A Few Weeks

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One of the new features merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel was multi-grained timestamps for the VFS layer and wiring it up for the EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and Tmpfs file-systems. This alternative though to coarse-grained timestamps ended up exposing some problems and this week ahead of Linux 6.6-rc3, the feature has been stripped entirely from the kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s Multi-Grain Timestamps Short-Lived: Removed From The Kernel After A Few Weeks

Intel's DAOS 2.4 Storage Engine Released

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While Intel divested its storage business and Intel Optane was sadly discontinued, one of the interesting open-source software projects from its storage efforts has been DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage engine. Version 2.4 of the DAOS software-defined object store designed for high-speed storage was released this past week…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s DAOS 2.4 Storage Engine Released

Mold 2.2 Linker Released With More Optimizations, BLAKE3 Crypto Hashing

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Rui Ueyama published today a new version of Mold, the open-source high speed linker that has easily outpaced the common linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects. Mold 2.2 continues work on its performance quest, expanding its multiple CPU architectures supported, and other new work…

Source: Phoronix – Mold 2.2 Linker Released With More Optimizations, BLAKE3 Crypto Hashing

Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging – Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+

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Mike Blumenkrantz, who is part of Valve’s stellar Linux graphics driver team, has managed another impressive feat of further optimizing the Mesa Vulkan driver code that benefits multiple drivers / hardware vendors…

Source: Phoronix – Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging – Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+

Cairo 1.18 Released – First Stable Release In Five Years

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Cairo 1.18 was released today as the first major stable release to this 2D graphics library in five years. This vector-based graphics library is widely-used for a variety of purposes from GNOME’s GTK toolkit to other apps making use of Cairo for targeting different back-ends from PDFs to OpenGL contexts. Mozilla Firefox, WebKit, Mono, and many other open-source projects are notable users of Cairo…

Source: Phoronix – Cairo 1.18 Released – First Stable Release In Five Years

Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster

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Prominent GNOME developer Christian Hergert announced he created a new terminal emulator that is twice as fast as the closest GPU-based renderer he’s found yet so far on Linux, which was Alacritty. Unfortunately though he currently doesn’t have any plans to develop this experimental speedy terminal emulator any further…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster

Intel Arrow Lake's NPU/VPU Very Similar To Meteor Lake – Linux Driver Patch Posted

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With Meteor Lake comes the introduction of the Versatile Processing Unit (VPU) that is now marketed by Intel as the Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Recent versions of the Linux kernel have the “IVPU” accelerator driver to support Meteor Lake’s VPU/NPU while now a patch is pending to extend that support for next-generation Arrow Lake processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arrow Lake’s NPU/VPU Very Similar To Meteor Lake – Linux Driver Patch Posted

Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston

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The Wayland Color Management protocol has been years in the making and is needed for a client to specify the color space and HDR metadata of a surface. This color management protocol is ultimately needed for getting high dynamic range (HDR) support working out well within Wayland environments. This week an initial merge request was opened for implementing the draft color management protocol with the Weston reference compositor…

Source: Phoronix – Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston

VKD3D 1.9 Released With HLSL Compiler Improvements, Ability To Inspect DXBC Blobs

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While VKD3D-Proton continues to be the downstream used by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) and receiving a bulk of the Windows D3D12 gaming optimizations, Wine’s upstream VKD3D project continues to evolve for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan. Released on Thursday was VKD3D 1.9 as the newest feature update…

Source: Phoronix – VKD3D 1.9 Released With HLSL Compiler Improvements, Ability To Inspect DXBC Blobs

AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 Released With Quadbuffer Stereo, Quake 2 RTX Optimizations

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AMD used to release new AMDVLK Vulkan driver updates on a near weekly basis for Linux users but that has slowed down for a while. We are approaching the end of Q3 and now AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 has been published as their first new open-source driver release since early August…

Source: Phoronix – AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 Released With Quadbuffer Stereo, Quake 2 RTX Optimizations

Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

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This shouldn’t come as any surprise to any longtime Phoronix readers and dedicated open-source/Linux enthusiasts, but Valve with their work on the Steam Deck and SteamOS have been lifting the open-source ecosystem as a whole. A talk this week at the Linux Foundation Europe’s Open-Source Summit highlighted some of the great and ongoing contributions by Valve and their partners…

Source: Phoronix – Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

Compute Runtime 23.30.26918.9 Released For Intel's Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

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Intel engineers have published their Compoute Runtime 23.30.26918.9 that provides their open-source Level Zero and OpenCL support for use on Windows and Linux platforms with Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Compute Runtime 23.30.26918.9 Released For Intel’s Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

Reminder: The 2023 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest/Autumn Special

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This is just a friendly reminder that if you wish to go ad-free on this site while supporting the ongoing Linux operations at Phoronix, enjoy native dark mode, and view multi-page articles on a single page, there remains an ongoing “Oktoberfest” sale for our Phoronix Premium subscription service…

Source: Phoronix – Reminder: The 2023 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest/Autumn Special