Going through my usual scanning of all the “-next” Git subsystem branches of new code set to be introduced for the next Linux kernel merge window, a very notable addition was just queued up… Linux 6.10 is set to merge the NTSYNC driver for emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives within the kernel for allowing better performance with Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) and Wine of Windows games and other apps on Linux.
- lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English40•6 months ago
2024, the most memorable year of Linux gaming so far :-)
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 9•6 months ago
why? i feel things are stabilizing and we are seeing incremental improvement instead of sweeping change now.
- 4am ( @4am@lemm.ee ) 25•6 months ago
Oh no, all the projects are maturing and stabilizing? How boring, I don’t know how Linux gaming will survive
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 13•6 months ago
oh i didnt mean to imply this is bad, just that it isnt memorable.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 14•6 months ago
The start of the environment stabilizing is memorable. People ten thousands of generations in the future will remember the exact day when Linux Gaming became stable.
- entropicdrift ( @entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ) 5•6 months ago
Yeah, I’m team @umbrella@lemmy.ml on this one. It’s important but it’s not revolutionary
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 7•6 months ago
The Year of Memorable Linux
- dosse91 ( @dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza ) 1•5 months ago
Nah mate, 2022 was when it started getting really good, GPL got rid of shader compilation stuttering (as well as dxvk-async related glitches), compatibility improved massively with improvements to both dxvk and vkd3d, and ray tracing finally started working
- LeFantome ( @LeFantome@programming.dev ) 20•6 months ago
In addition to being useful for gamers, these are probably about to be the least likely to change APIs in the kernel.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 9•6 months ago
something something win32 is the most stable api
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Going through my usual scanning of all the “-next” Git subsystem branches of new code set to be introduced for the next Linux kernel merge window, a very notable addition was just queued up… Linux 6.10 is set to merge the NTSYNC driver for emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives within the kernel for allowing better performance with Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) and Wine of Windows games and other apps on Linux.
The past several months has seen much work on the NTSYNC kernel driver for allowing better Wine (Windows) gaming/app performance on Linux.
"ntsync uses a misc device as the simplest and least intrusive uAPI interface.
It was very exciting to see this morning that Greg Kroah-Hartman has queued the NTSYNC patches into char/misc’s char-misc-next branch.
With the patches now residing there, they will be submitted for the Linux 6.10 merge window opening up in May and then debuting as stable this summer – barring any last minute issues or objections raised by Linus Torvalds.
Very exciting year for Linux gamers with NTSYNC going mainline, ongoing work around HDR and other display improvements, and all of the Wayland advancements being made, among the usual Linux hardware support advancements and other common kernel milestones being seen in 2024.
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Is this an alternative to FSYNC and ESYNC?
- Atemu ( @Atemu@lemmy.ml ) 6•6 months ago
Yes.
- uis ( @uis@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months ago
What about futex2?
- bloodfart ( @bloodfart@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months ago
I want it that way!