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AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler

Phoronix - 22. Březen 2024 - 11:30
AMD on Thursday published AOMP 19.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler focused on delivering the latest OpenMP device offloading support for their Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators...

Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays

Phoronix - 22. Březen 2024 - 5:30
With the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem changes sent out today for the Linux 6.9 kernel, there is support for larger console fonts to better handle today's ~4K displays...

Fedora Linux 40 Beta Cleared For Release Next Week

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 21:39
After not making its early beta target for 12 March and then failing to make its intended release date of 19 March, Fedora Linux 40 Beta is now cleared for releasing next week...

Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Continue Paying Off Big Time For Xeon Emerald Rapids

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 16:30
Intel 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors already offer some nice generational improvements with improved AVX-512, faster DDR5 memory support, and also the new Optimized Power Mode option. But if wanting to maximize the performance capabilities even further, Intel's Clear Linux distribution continues working out well for maximizing the performance capabilities of Intel x86_64 hardware.

System76 Rolls Out Lemur Pro Laptops With Core Ultra "Meteor Lake"

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 16:30
For those that have been interested in Intel's Meteor Lake mobile processors for the great integrated Arc Graphics capabilities and/or the new integrated NPU with open-source Intel iVPU kernel driver upstream, System76 today announced the new Lemur Pro laptops with Core Ultra processors...

Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 15:22
Merged this week into Mesa 24.1 for the Broadcom VideoCore V3DV Vulkan driver that is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi boards is support for VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering...

Linux 6.9 Adds New Build-Time Control Whether To Authorize Attached USB Devices

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 15:02
The in-development Linux 6.9 kernel is introducing a new USB_DEFAULT_AUTHORIZATION_MODE Kconfig build-time switch to change the default authorization mode for how Linux should deal with attached USB devices...

KSMBD Now Implements Durable File Handles With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 11:56
The KSMBD in-kernel SMB3 server is gaining support for durable file handles in the Linux 6.9 kernel...

exFAT Driver Boasts Much Faster "dirsync" Performance With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 11:45
The latest file-system driver with notable mentions for Linux 6.9 is that for Microsoft's exFAT file-system...

Microsoft Better Seeds The RNG For Hyper-V VMs In Linux 6.9

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 11:30
Microsoft has submitted their various Hyper-V updates to the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...

Wayland Protocols 1.34 Introduces Better Drag & Drop, Explicit DRM Sync Objects

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 5:00
Wayland Protocols 1.34 was released on Wednesday with three new staging protocols for further enhancing Wayland's capabilities...

AMD FSR 3.1 Announced With Vulkan Support

Phoronix - 21. Březen 2024 - 0:13
AMD used the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2024) this week to announce FSR 3.1, the latest iteration of their FidelityFX Super Resolution tech for game upscaling...

Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor

Phoronix - 20. Březen 2024 - 21:25
Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a time when various kernel abstractions are still being devised and not yet upstreamed...

Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes

Phoronix - 20. Březen 2024 - 19:00
The x86/entry pull request last week for the Linux 6.9 kernel contained just a single patch but it was a significant one at that in that it helps lower the overhead for CR3 writes and the benefits can be visible for workloads like Linux's perf functionality...

GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish

Phoronix - 20. Březen 2024 - 16:37
The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop...

A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine

Phoronix - 20. Březen 2024 - 16:14
Announced back in 2021 by the Linux Foundation was Amazon Lumberyard becoming the Open 3D Engine and the Linux Foundation fostering the Open 3D Foundation for evolving this new open-source game engine. Three years later there is now a commercial game announced for the Open 3D Engine (O3DE)...

DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - 20. Březen 2024 - 14:26
DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play component that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK_NV_raw_access_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs...

IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support

Phoronix - 20. Březen 2024 - 13:45
In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler...

Tiny Corp Puts Their AMD-Powered Compute Boxes "On Hold"

Phoronix - 20. Březen 2024 - 11:54
Tiny Corp has been frustrated before with AMD / ROCm and planned to drop AMD graphics cards in their planned compute boxes over it only to go back to AMD GPUs with their open-source driver stack later. It's now happened again following frustrations over firmware binaries. After recently lobbying AMD to at least open-source some relevant pieces of their firmware and at ~70% confidence over their plans, Tiny Corp announced on Tuesday they are dropping AMD GPUs again from their compute plans...

Bcachefs Fixes Deadlock In Recovery, More Fixes Coming

Phoronix - 20. Březen 2024 - 11:43
Following the revised Bcachefs code making it into Linux 6.9 and a warning for Bcachefs multi-device users to move past Linux 6.7, a batch of fixes was merged overnight for Linux 6.9 while further fixes to this file-system are expected soon...
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