Kernel: Linux and Graphics (Systemd, Intel, AMD, Wayland)
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Systemd 236 Is Being Prepped For Release This Month With Many Changes
Lennart Poettering has begun his release wrangling process in getting systemd 236 ready for release this month.
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Intel Releases New Linux Media Driver For VA-API
While Intel has been supporting VA-API for years, basically since X-Video/XvMC became irrelevant, as its primary video API for video acceleration, they are now rolling out a new media driver.
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Details and motivation on writing this new "Intel Media Driver" for Linux remain light and I have yet to see any official announcement out of Intel, but the code is available via intel/media-driver on GitHub with the initial public code drop having just occurred yesterday.
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Intel Sends In The First Set Of Changes For Linux 4.16 i915 DRM
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AMDGPU's Scheduler Might Get Picked Up By Other DRM Drivers
One of the benefits of open-source software is the ability for code re-use by other projects and that may now happen with the AMDGPU kernel driver's scheduler.
Prominent Etnaviv driver developer Lucas Stach who has long been working on this open-source reverse-engineered Vivante graphics driver is looking to make use of the AMDGPU DRM scheduler. This scheduler is responsible for scheduling command submissions, supports scheduling priorities, and other related functionality.
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AMD Publishes More DC Patches, Disables FreeSync By Default
If you have encountered some early fallout from using the AMDGPU DC display stack or just want to help in testing patches likely to be queued for Linux 4.16, AMD has sent out another patch of DC patches.
Harry Wentland of AMD kicked off his Friday morning by sending out another 20 patches for this big display code-base.
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XDG-Shell Promoted To Stable In Wayland-Protocols 1.12
Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat has released a new version of Wayland-Protocols, the collection of protocols that extends/introduces new functionality not part of the core Wayland protocol.
Wayland-Protocols 1.12 is the new release and promotes the latest work on the XDG-Shell protocol from unstable to stable. XDG-Shell is the Wayland protocol extension for defining more functionality around traditional Linux desktop environments that isn't part of the core Wayland protocol. This includes work around window resizing/stacking/dragging and other functionality. Most (all?) Wayland desktop compositors now support XDG-Shell.
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