Linux 5.12 Released With Intel Xe Variable Rate Refresh, Clang LTO, KFENCE + More

[schmidtbag]

So Intel doesn't even have their graphics cards out yet and they have adaptive sync, but yet my video card from another vendor is just finally getting it after many years.

Xe has been available for a while, as iGPUs.

[coder]

This is going to be the coolest version of Linux:

5.12 = 2⁹ / 10²

...until 10.24, which has an even nicer symmetry.

[coder]

So Intel doesn't even have their graphics cards out yet and they have adaptive sync, but yet my video card from another vendor is just finally getting it after many years.

As mentioned in the article about it, the Xe graphics targeted by this change are primarily found in Tiger Lake (in Laptops & SFF PCs since late last year) and Rocket Lake (in desktops since the end of last month):

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...2-Xe-VRR-Intel

[xpris]

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but does this mean there are no issues building the kernel with Clang? I thought only GCC was really supported.

OpenMandriva use Clang kernel.

[milkylainen]

It was a smooth upgrade this time around.
Custom Linux 5.12, with Virtualbox 6.1.20, NVidia 465.24.02 building right out of the box, without fixes.

[MrCooper]

So Intel doesn't even have their graphics cards out yet and they have adaptive sync, but yet my video card from another vendor is just finally getting it after many years.

Are you talking about nouveau, or yet another vendor? amdgpu DC has had the corresponding support for years.

[Aeder]

So Intel doesn't even have their graphics cards out yet and they have adaptive sync, but yet my video card from another vendor is just finally getting it after many years.

It could be worse, you could have the same problems I do with my Intel+AMD laptop which went from perfectly supported to not booting with Kernel 5.11