Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor

Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a tim…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Nova-Rust-Abstractions

More Organizations Join The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, v1.0 Spec In Q3

Announced last summer was the Ultra Ethernet Consortium started by the Linux Foundation along with AMD, Intel, Cisco, Meta, Microsoft, Broadcom, and other organizations. Ultra Ethernet aims for high performance networking for the likes of AI and HPC. The group announced today they've courted an additional 45 organizations to become members of this consortium and t…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ultra-Ethernet-45-More-Members

XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend

XWayland had targeted both the Generic Buffer Management (GBM) and EGLStream APIs due to NVIDIA not supporting GBM like all of the other Linux drivers. But now that the NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver has been boasting GBM support and advancing with their Wayland platform support in general, XWayland is letting go of the EGLStream mess...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Drops-EGLStream

SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0

Going back years but documented in 2022 has been a desire for the SDL hardware/software abstraction layer popular with cross-platform games to offer an abstracted file-system API. That's finally come to reality with the new SDL_Storage interface added for SDL 3.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-SDL_Storage-API-Merged

The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers

It has taken many years but the Mesa 3D open-source graphics drivers have proven very successful from the open-source AMD Vulkan and OpenGL drivers proving they can be capable of competing with the closed-source drivers not only for gaming but also workstation tasks, the Windows vs. Linux graphics driver performance gap largely closed, Microsoft ev…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Revert-For-SPECViewPerf