Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee…

Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned - Phoronix

The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous roun...

RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy) Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf…

RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy) - Phoronix

Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy ext...

Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...

Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux - Phoronix

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box

Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as well as the modern OpenGL approach of using Zink for layering OpenGL atop Vulkan. Here are some fresh benchmarks using the very latest Mesa 25.2 code for NVK on the latest u…

Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series - Phoronix

A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan ...

RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioning are continued Vulkan Video improvements for AMD Radeon graphics...

RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing i...

Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...

Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available - Phoronix

Debian's annual Debian Conference 'DebConf' started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France.

AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux. Some of that code hadn't been merged as of writing but fortunately this week the remainder of the NGG improvements were successfully merged to Mesa Git for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 release...

AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching - Phoronix

Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry 'NGG' improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drive...

Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company...

Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company - Phoronix

Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been ...

GStreamer 1.27.1 Release Brings AMD HIP Plugin & Better Vulkan Video GStreamer 1.27.1 released this week as the first development version toward the GStreamer 1.28 release coming later in the year. GStreamer 1.27/1.28 is bringing a lot of modern feature enhancements for this widely-used multimedia library...

GStreamer 1.27.1 Release Brings AMD HIP Plugin & Better Vulkan Video - Phoronix

GStreamer 1.27.1 released this week as the first development version toward the GStreamer 1.28 release coming later in the year

Wine-Staging 10.2 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.2 is out at 292 patches atop upstream Wine and containing two new patches...

Wine-Staging 10.12 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug - Phoronix

It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note