RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Untyped Pointers Support Introduced earlier this month with the Vulkan API 1.4.325 spec update was the introduction of the untyped pointers extension with VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers and SPIR-V's underlying SPV_KHR_untyped_pointers for providing an alternative option to strongly-typed pointers. As of yesterday the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now supporting this untyped pointers extension...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Untyped Pointers Support - Phoronix

Introduced earlier this month with the Vulkan API 1.4.325 spec update was the introduction of the untyped pointers extension with VK_KHR_shader_unt...

Latest NOVA Patches From NVIDIA Get The GSP Booting To RISC-V Active State The NOVA open-source kernel graphics driver continues getting slowly built-up for the NVIDIA RTX 20 "Turing" and newer GPUs that sport the GPU System Processor (GSP) for easing the hardware initialization and management of modern NVIDIA GPUs within the mainline kernel. This Rust-written kernel driver now has patches pending for booting up the NVIDIA GSP to its RISC-…

Latest NOVA Patches From NVIDIA Get The GSP Booting To RISC-V Active State - Phoronix

The NOVA open-source kernel graphics driver continues getting slowly built-up for the NVIDIA RTX 20 'Turing' and newer GPUs that sport th...

QEMU 10.1 Released With Intel TDX Improvements, Support For Compiling To WASM QEMU 10.1 was released overnight as the latest iteration of this open-source machine emulator that plays an important role in the Linux virtualization stack...

QEMU 10.1 Released With Intel TDX Improvements, Support For Compiling To WASM - Phoronix

QEMU 10.1 was released overnight as the latest iteration of this open-source machine emulator that plays an important role in the Linux virtualizat...

Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors. Mir 2.22 brings some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support as well as initial preparations for Rust programming language support...

Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding - Phoronix

Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors

Initrd Support Could Finally Be On Its Way To Being Removed From The Linux Kernel Linux's classic initial RAM disk "initrd" support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from stakeholders. Long live initramfs...

Initrd Support Could Finally Be On Its Way To Being Removed From The Linux Kernel - Phoronix

Linux's classic initial RAM disk 'initrd' support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from s...

Meson 1.9 Released With New Rust Features, Adds Swift/C++ Interoperability Meson 1.9 released this weekend as the newest feature update to this build system / build automation tool that works well across different software platforms. With Meson 1.9 there is enhanced Rust support, introducing Swift and C++ code interoperability, and other enhancements to this increasingly used alternative to the likes of CMake and Autotools...

Meson 1.9 Released With New Rust Features, Adds Swift/C++ Interoperability - Phoronix

Meson 1.9 released this weekend as the newest feature update to this build system / build automation tool that works well across different software...

Linux Foundation Forms The Developer Relations Foundation, DocumentDB Joins The LF The Linux Foundation used Open-Source Summit Europe 2025 happening in Amsterdam to announce the formation of the Developer Relations Foundation "DRF". Separately, they also announced from Amsterdam that DocumentDB has joined the Linux Foundation...

Linux Foundation Forms The Developer Relations Foundation, DocumentDB Joins The LF - Phoronix

The Linux Foundation used Open-Source Summit Europe 2025 happening in Amsterdam to announce the formation of the Developer Relations Foundation &#0...

Google Prepares Chrome Field Trial For Accelerated Video Decode On Wayland Google is preparing a field trial with the Chrome web browser of accelerated video decoding under Wayland/Linux as a step toward rolling it out by default for a better video playback experience on the Linux desktop with Wayland-based environments...

Google Prepares Chrome Field Trial For Accelerated Video Decode On Wayland - Phoronix

Google is preparing a field trial with the Chrome web browser of accelerated video decoding under Wayland/Linux as a step toward rolling it out by ...

Nouveau Driver Receives Patch For GPU Reclocking With The Pascal GP10B Nearly a decade after the Tegra X2 SoC shipped in the likes of the Jetson TX2, the Pascal-based GP10B GPU has received a patch for allowing GPU re-clocking within the open-source Nouveau driver...

Nouveau Driver Receives Patch For GPU Reclocking With The Pascal GP10B - Phoronix

Nearly a decade after the Tegra X2 SoC shipped in the likes of the Jetson TX2, the Pascal-based GP10B GPU has received a patch for allowing GPU re-...

GNOME's Glycin Lands "Dramatically Improved" JPEG-XL Image Loading Performance Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was released this week for the GNOME project providing a Rust-based library for decoding, editing, and creating images and associated metadata. Glycin is in turn used by a growing number of GNOME components for imaging needs...

GNOME's Glycin Lands "Dramatically Improved" JPEG-XL Image Loading Performance - Phoronix

Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was released this week for the GNOME project providing a Rust-based library for decoding, editing, and creating images and associ...