[tomek@vz]

Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed support for VDPAU acceleration.

AMD engineer David Rosca landed the video acceleration changes to Gallium3D today for removing VDPAU from the Mesa source tree. His reasonings for removing VDPAU are explained in the commit:

"VDPAU only supports X11 and GL interop. There is no Wayland or Vulkan interop support. The API has limitations that makes it impossible to correctly decode certain streams. Application support is also very limited, and VAAPI is always a better choice over VDPAU."

The merge lightens the Mesa codebase by nearly nine thousand lines of code in removing the VDPAU support.

> Phoronix

Fwupd 2.0.15 has been released today as the fifteenth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility, adding support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.
Coming about two weeks after fwupd 2.0.14, the fwupd 2.0.15 release adds support for updating the firmware on more hardware, including the NVIDIA ConnectX-6, NVIDIA ConnectX-7, and NVIDIA ConnectX-8 NICs, Jabra Evolve2 child devices, as well as the Foxconn SDX61 modem.
Apart from the extra hardware support, fwupd 2.0.15 introduces support for allowing child devices to use the parent name as a prefix, adds newer commands and options for Fish completion, and adds support for allowing the installation of firmware archives named as .CAB rather than .cab.

> 9to5

This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Frank Vasquez and Chris Simmonds about Embedded Linux, and the 4th edition of the Mastering Embedded Linux Programming book. How has this space changed in the last 20 years, and what’s the latest in Embedded Linux?

• Mastering Embedded Linux Development on Amazon
• https://2net.co.uk/
• The Linux Plumbers Conference Call For Proposals page
• AOSP and AAOS meetup on Wednesday 17 September
• https://aosp-devs.org/

> Hackaday