Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders

Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49 In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol...

Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49 - Phoronix

In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also ...

MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 Released To Advertise Vulkan 1.3 Support For Apple Devices MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 was released today as the first test release of this updated Apple iOS / macOS / tvOS / visionOS layer that implements the Vulkan API atop the Apple Metal drivers. With MoltenVK 1.3 there is Vulkan API 1.3 support finally in tow...

MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 Released To Advertise Vulkan 1.3 Support For Apple Devices - Phoronix

MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 was released today as the first test release of this updated Apple iOS / macOS / tvOS / visionOS layer that implements the Vulkan ...

Meson 1.8 Build System Released - Wayland Module Declared Stable Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool...

Meson 1.8 Build System Released - Wayland Module Declared Stable - Phoronix

Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool.

GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps Another change to look forward to with GNOME 49 come September is better/faster direct scanout for more applications thanks to a change that was merged to the Mutter compositor this past week...

GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps - Phoronix

Another change to look forward to with GNOME 49 come September is better/faster direct scanout for more applications thanks to a change that was me...

KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4 As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also meeting this week in Graz, Austria for further development and planning...

KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4 - Phoronix

As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also ...

Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advertised...

Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver - Phoronix

Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advert...

Intel 200S Boost Performance Mode Benchmarks On Linux This week Intel announced "200S Boost" for Core Ultra "Arrow Lake" K-Series desktop processors as effectively a new overclocking profile rolling out to existing Z890 motherboards via a BIOS update. Enabling the 200S Boost profile is said to help with low-latency workloads like gaming by allowing higher fabric / die-to-die / memory frequencies. While some Windows benchmarks have begun em…

Intel 200S Boost Performance Mode Benchmarks On Linux - Phoronix

This week Intel announced '200S Boost' for Core Ultra 'Arrow Lake' K-Series desktop processors as effectively a new overclockin...

Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file and folder support...

Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems - Phoronix

Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file an...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Updated For DRM Panic Support One of the interesting new features merged to the Linux kernel last year was the DRM Panic infrastructure so that Linux can display an error screen akin to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" when encountering problems. With follow-on kernel releases it's been extended to add QR code error messages and other improvements. But DRM Panic does require the support/cooperation of …

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Updated For DRM Panic Support - Phoronix

One of the interesting new features merged to the Linux kernel last year was the DRM Panic infrastructure so that Linux can display an error screen...