Kernel: Intel and Lenovo, Latest Openwashing PR by Intel

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Intel Linux Driver Patches Yield 10~63% Faster Performance For Select Gen12/TGL GPUs - Phoronix
Users of various Intel Tiger Lake graphics and other "Gen12" graphics SKUs like the DG1 discrete graphics cards could soon be seeing a huge performance speed-up with the open-source Linux driver.
It turns out there is a sizable performance bottleneck right now in the Intel Gen12 graphics driver support on Linux when using hardware with less than 96 execution units. In turn with patches to address this shortcoming, OpenGL/Vulkan performance improvements can be north of 10% to 63% faster compared to the current state.
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Intel Working On A VirtIO DMA-BUF Driver For Multi-GPUs, Virtualized Environments - Phoronix
Intel engineers have been working on "Vdmabuf" as a VirtIO-based DMA-BUF driver for the Linux kernel. This driver is intended for their growing multi-GPU use-cases and also in cases of GPU virtualization where wanting to transfer contents seamlessly to the host for display purposes.
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Lenovo Laptop Platform Profile Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.12 - Phoronix
Lenovo continues working on a number of contributions to the upstream kernel thanks to their work on preloading various Linux distributions on a number of different devices. In cooperation with Red Hat engineers over the past year we have seen a lot of Lenovo related improvements and the latest set to come with the Linux 5.12 cycle is ACPI platform profile support for their laptops.
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Intel's Open-Source Embree Ray-Tracing Library Wins An Academy Award
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