Hacker News with Generative AI: Drivers

Fan Service (tedunangst.com)
ASUS laptops generally have a feature that lets the user toggle the fan speed. Fn-F5 on some models, Fn-F on others. The direct effect is to limit the fan speed, from whisper mode to megablast, and indirectly control performance. But it doesn’t work in OpenBSD, so I needed to write an ASUS ACPI WMI driver.

OpenBSD, Laptop Hardware, Drivers, Operating Systems, ASUS

152 points by todsacerdoti 13 days ago | 32 comments

Intel rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance (arstechnica.com)
Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

Intel, Laptop GPUs, Drivers, Performance, Technology

7 points by CharlesW 24 days ago | 0 comments

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Impact of the 3D V-Cache Optimizer Linux Driver Review (phoronix.com)
Last month I posted benchmarks showing the performance when using the new 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver on Linux using the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D. This optimizer driver allows tuning the "amd_x3d_mode" for indicating your preference for the CCD with the higher frequency or larger cache size. For some additional insight into the 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver performance impact on Linux, here are benchmarks looking at the difference while using the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D.

AMD Ryzen, Linux, Performance, Benchmarking, Drivers

6 points by rbanffy 50 days ago | 0 comments

NT Synchronization Primitive Driver (kernel.org)
This page documents the user-space API for the ntsync driver.

Operating Systems, Kernel Development, Drivers

21 points by doener 58 days ago | 0 comments

Writing a simple windows driver in Rust (scorpiosoftware.net)
The Rust language ecosystem is growing each day, its popularity increasing, and with good reason. It’s the only mainstream language that provides memory and concurrency safety at compile time, with a powerful and rich build system (cargo), and a growing number of packages (crates).

Rust, Programming, Windows, Drivers

248 points by ingve 104 days ago | 91 comments

Linux 6.14 Networking Brings Many Wired and Wireless Driver Improvements (phoronix.com)
The big networking subsystem feature pull was sent out this morning for the Linux 6.14 merge window.

Linux, Networking, Drivers, Operating Systems, Software

5 points by LinuxBender 122 days ago | 0 comments

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 (github.com/PluMGMK)
This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit graphic modes on any system providing the VESA BIOS Extensions (hence the VBE in the name). It is based on the Video 7 SVGA driver included in the Win16 Driver Development Kit, with most of the hardware-specific code gutted out, and with support added for multi-byte pixels.

Windows 3.1, Operating Systems, Drivers, Graphics, Retro Computing

14 points by mysterydip 139 days ago | 0 comments

Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming with Linux 6.13 for Better Performance Within VMs (phoronix.com)
Included now for Linux 6.13 is the virtual-cpufreq driver as a virtualized CPU frequency scaling driver.

Virtualization, Linux, Performance, Operating Systems, Drivers

5 points by LinuxBender 180 days ago | 0 comments

Configuring the XpPen ACK05 Remote with Only Floss on GNU/Linux: My Investigati (davidrevoy.com)
Here is my research on how to use and configure the XPPen ACK05 Remote using only Free Libre and Open Source drivers and software under GNU/Linux. As you'll see, it's quite limited and some features just don't work. This guide will be updated as soon as I have new information on how to improve it, or as soon as new development improves support for this device.

GNU/Linux, Open Source, Hardware, Drivers, Tablets

7 points by todsacerdoti 228 days ago | 4 comments

List of banned functions for Windows drivers (microsoft.com)
This warning indicates that a function is being used that has been banned and has a more robust or secure replacement.

Windows, Security, Programming, Drivers

12 points by pjmlp 231 days ago | 0 comments

Learning about PCI-e: Driver and DMA (davidv.dev)

PCI-e, Drivers, DMA, Hardware

229 points by todsacerdoti 300 days ago | 23 comments

Driving forward in Android drivers (blogspot.com)

Android, Drivers

103 points by idiocrat 343 days ago | 9 comments

Writing an NVMe Driver in Rust [pdf] (in.tum.de)

Rust, NVMe, Operating Systems, Drivers

242 points by foooo4 360 days ago | 44 comments

Goodix Fingerprint Drivers for Linux (Or at Least Debian) (github.com/tcsenpai)