Advancements in Open-source Vulkan Driver Development and Linux Kernel Improvements

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• HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
• NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
• FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
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• KDE MegaRelease 6 — With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
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