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[Faith] Ekstrand sums up the current feature state for NVK as:...

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...

This merge adds the kernel-side bits around mitigating AMD’s Speculative Return Address Stack (RAS) overflow vulnerability for Zen 3 and Zen 4. See this earlier article for details on this AMD INCEPTION disclosure....

Direct link to the Medium post being benchmarked: medium.com/…/here-are-some-possibly-useful-tweaks…

Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.

Moving forward the aim is for Ubuntu kernel updates to be done on a 4-week update cycle while having a follow-on release at the 2-week midpoint to provide any critical/high CVE fixes or any other critical fixes. In effect, a kernel update every two weeks but that mid-point release will be reserved just for more urgent items that...

tl;dr WIP Vulkan support for old HD 6000 cards (late 2000s/early 2010s) developed by dev that also works on Xenia and implemented the complicated fragment shader interlock extension used by some emulators

Good grief....