SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 (www.phoronix.com)
NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
AMD’s HIP Ray-Tracing library “HIP RT” has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced… That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.
Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support (www.phoronix.com)
Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware (www.phoronix.com)
VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V (www.phoronix.com)
OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan 1.3.279 debuted on Friday with many fixes/clarifications to the specifications plus one new extension. The VK_NV_raw_access_chains extemsion should allow for more efficient shaders compiled from HLSL sources.