Category: Driver
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Nova: Red Hat’s New Rust-Based GSP-Only Driver for NVIDIA GPUs – Latest Announcement
Red Hat announced earlier this week that the company has begun work on a new open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust, referred to as Nova. The Nova graphics driver is planed to be the successor to the Nouveau open-source driver for GSP-firmware-based NVIDIA graphics cards. It’s a GSP (GPU System Processor) exclusive…
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Unveiling GStreamer 1.24: A Multimedia Framework with Vulkan H.264 and H.265 Video Decoders
GStreamer 1.24 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download as a significant update introducing various new features and refinements. New features introduced in the GStreamer 1.24 release encompass Vulkan H.264 and H.265 video decoders, an innovative unixfd plugin for proficient 1:N inter-process communication on Linux, new GstMeta for SMPTE ST-291M HANC/VANC Ancillary Data, a…
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Mesa’s NVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver for NVIDIA Hardware Achieves Stability
Collabora has updated 9to5Linux.com that their NVK open-source Vulkan graphics driver for NVIDIA hardware in the Mesa graphics stack is now stable and ready for widespread use, no longer being considered experimental. As Faith Ekstrand of Collabora describes in a blog post, a new merge request was accepted into the Mesa graphics stack that removes…
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Libreboot’s Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Enhances Hardware Support
Today, Leah Rowe launched a fresh version (20240225) of Libreboot, a free and open-source alternative to BIOS/UEFI firmware. This version introduces support for additional hardware and incorporates various enhancements. The current release, Libreboot 20240225, follows approximately one month after its preceding version. This is another “testing” release and is recommended for adventurous users willing to…
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Libreboot’s Latest Open Source Firmware 20240126 Update: Now Supports More Hardware
The Libreboot project announced today the general availability of a new Libreboot release, version 20240126, which introduces support for new hardware, as well as several improvements and new features. After more than two and a half months in the works, Libreboot 20240126 is here to introduce support for new mainboards including Dell Latitude E6530, HP…