Mesa Open News Today

Not going to fail. If anything was to happen we might get some debris that is is going to get kicked off to the side of the building towards that northeast of the building. Reporter and that was the point they repeatedly made to us just at this briefing that the crane and the wall is not going to come down, but they are still evaluating the situation. They have city engineers, an expert coming in from washington state. All of this is under evaluation. What they do next they are still evaluating....

Intel is upstreaming the necessary Lunar Lake 'LNL' graphics firmware nice and early to linux-firmware.git for their 'Xe2' integrated graphics.

QERadiant is a Quake 2 level editor. Created by Robert Duffy.

This shouldn't come as any surprise to any longtime Phoronix readers and dedicated open-source/Linux enthusiasts, but Valve with their work on the Steam Deck and SteamOS have been lifting the open-source ecosystem as a whole

The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) has long been a source of issues for Linux developers and it turns out systems relying on HPET rather than the CPU's TSC have in recent months suffered significant performance degradation with the Mesa OpenGL driver code.

The convenient Mesa Matrix tracker that has long shown Vulkan and OpenGL versions and extensions supported by the different open-source drivers has also now begun reporting OpenCL support.

While there are sadly many tech layoffs happening, one company that continues hiring at least on the Linux side is AMD

Landing today in Mesa 23.2-devel is support for big.LITTLE CPU detection or more broadly hybrid CPU core detection where little cores (e.g

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

Intel's upcoming wave of Alchemist GPUs could include a cut down version of its announced Nvidia RTX 3070 competitor