Graphics: AMD, NVIDIA and Mesa

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AMDVLK Weekly Code Drop Brings A DXVK Fix, VK_EXT_debug_utils Support
AMD developers maintaining their official Vulkan driver have carried out another weekly code push to the open-source AMDVLK code-base.
Overall the changes for this week's worth of AMD Radeon Vulkan driver changes is fairly small, but there is a DXVK fix, one new Vulkan extension wired up, and a lot of low-level driver work.
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NVIDIA 415.27 Linux Driver Released With GeForce RTX 2060 Support
With NVIDIA today officially shipping the GeForce RTX 2060 as the new $349 USD Turing graphics card, the 415.27 Linux driver was released today to officially support this new graphics card.
The GeForce RTX 2060 actually works with former 415 driver series releases, but would just be identified as a NVIDIA "Device" as opposed to the GeForce RTX 2060. The product string is now in this driver plus any other small tweaks to officially support this lowest-cost RTX Turing graphics card to date.
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Mesa 18.3.2 release candidate
The candidate for the Mesa 18.3.2 is now available. Currently we have:
- 78 queued
- 3 nominated (outstanding)
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Mesa 18.3.2 Is Finally En Route With 78+ Changes
It's been more than a month since the debut of Mesa 18.3 and the emergency 18.3.1 release while due the holidays and the release manager being sick, the next point release fell off the tracks. Mesa 18.3.2 is now being crafted and should be out in the next few days. Given the time since the previous release, Mesa 18.3.2 is heavy on fixes.
Emil Velikov announced the release today of Mesa 18.3.2 RC1 and plans for officially releasing this point update in the next day or two. This release candidate has 78 patches queued over the prior update.
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