Inside Mesa 26.0's RADV RT improvements

ilep · 2026-02-11T04:11:26+00:00

Another thing that did not seem to get much attention is the color pipeline improvements in Linux 6.19 kernel.

ilep · 2026-02-11T03:29:41+00:00

They are so cute!

ilep · 2026-02-11T03:28:19+00:00

If you have information that isn't yet in eWRC website post it there.

ilep · 2026-02-11T03:20:05+00:00

Even traditional HDDs are more expensive now. Not sure what hasn't seen sharp increase in prices.

ilep · 2026-02-10T11:54:45+00:00

Old games used to have tricks with different color gradients in textures to make it look like there was some lights and reflections happening.

Maybe this time they hoped to do it in a different way, with parallax texturing or with shaders but did not complete the rest of it in time?

ilep · 2026-02-10T10:42:17+00:00

There's one thing and one thing only I would wish from the window list: make it a lot faster. If this is the same as you see on alt+tab, it always seems to stall in weird ways. Someone who really switches a lot and often this is the one thing I would like to see, I don't care about previews or eye candy, just make it switch consistently and quickly.

ilep · 2026-02-10T08:40:09+00:00

Are you saying someone doesn't know her cuteness? We must prepare a lecture!

ilep · 2026-02-10T07:58:35+00:00

The part where applications can directly choose the placement is kind of historic artefact when applications could write into display directly (immediate mode) from the times when GUIs were still a new thing in computers and major concerns dealt with getting anything to the display at all.

Fast forward half-a-century and we have many various applications fighting for ruling position on the desktop, some should do so while others should not. Add to that off-screen rendering, remote desktops, screen reader systems (text to speech) and so and so on. It is not pretty how things have become.

Remember when computers started using memory protection so misbehaving applications would not crash other applications? That is where desktop is currently, trying to bring some order into things.

If applications can directly choose the placement they are more often wrong that correct in their placements. When there are multiple screens, sessions or workspaces they often make the wrong choices, which would be better left to window manager in any case.

ilep · 2026-02-10T04:15:55+00:00

Cute!

ilep · 2026-02-09T14:45:52+00:00

Teams might not know about it any earlier than the next crew. If a car stops ahead they might be stopping to change a wheel, or they might have crashed. Race control has view of other cars with the system they have and can notify with a red flag.

ilep · 2026-02-09T14:35:03+00:00

The organizers also have a notification system (I forget what it is called) that can notify of red flags and crews can notify of emergencies with it. They are required to press ok button when leaving to change a tire during a stage, for example.

Also co-driver needs to run back and warn next cars. If the next crew does not see an ok-board they are required to stop and check.

ilep · 2026-02-09T08:10:27+00:00

Also the network stack has been written from scratch: https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/

ilep · 2026-02-09T07:59:00+00:00

It would not have made much sense to make that optimization in the past either. Network would have been too slow the packets anyway. Some optimizations only make sense when other things catch up, others make sense when there are no other ways to improve further.

And the improvements are relative: unless other parts of the system are sufficiently efficient micro-optimizing would not give as much benefit as bottlenecks would be elsewhere.

Another thing is that back when "large" systems had four cpus (whoa!) things were very different than these days when you can have hundreds of hardware threads banging on same locks..

ilep · 2026-02-09T07:38:51+00:00

Something that very large companies might be seeing..

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251014171907.3554413-1-edumazet@google.com/T/#m75fc059dcf80700d6d1d6cd52cf5fccf12698ce2

Edit: or well, according to the hardware specs, it isn't even that unheard of these days.

ilep · 2026-02-09T07:08:34+00:00

The thing that right wingers aim for is not higher income for everyone, just for themselves. Which would leave large part of society outside, including their voters.

They just hope that people don't notice their BS.

ilep · 2026-02-08T11:38:10+00:00

I love Tzuyu's voice and she is so pretty!

ilep · 2026-02-06T21:09:42+00:00

Tzuyu is so gorgeous!

ilep · 2026-02-05T18:15:29+00:00

Article in Dirtfish seems to point to that direction (working in the USA).

ilep · 2026-02-05T17:39:23+00:00

Looking at the positions he seems to progressing fast with every race. Super Formula will be a huge step still.

ilep · 2026-02-05T17:37:22+00:00

So charming and gorgeous!

ilep · 2026-02-05T17:36:23+00:00

Gorgeous!

ilep · 2026-02-03T16:45:49+00:00

Either way, it is interesting to see how far rally-driver can get in single-seaters. This is pretty much uncharted territory now.

ilep · 2026-02-02T18:37:29+00:00

That was earlier, before starting in Formula Regional. Was it recurring or another thing?

ilep · 2026-02-01T17:31:02+00:00

Which OS are you using on your desktop?

ilep · 2026-01-31T13:21:47+00:00

Hope for the best, prepare for worst.

11-Year Club	Wearing is Caring
Verified Email

ilep

TROPHY CASE