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Linux 5.18 Graphics Driver Changes From FreeSync Video Mode To New Intel Hardware
David Airlie has submitted the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates for the Linux 5.18 kernel that includes the many graphics/display driver changes this cycle...
Linux 5.18 Crypto Has Arm Optimizations, AVX For SM3, Xilinx SHA3 Driver
The crypto subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 5.18 kernel...
Andes NDS32 CPU Architecture To Be Dropped In Linux 5.18
It was just back in 2018 that Andes' NDS32 CPU architecture support was added with the Linux 4.17 kernel. But now with Linux 5.18 the AndesCore NDS32 architecture is being removed over lack of active maintenance...
Linux 5.18 EDAC Continues Making Preparations For AMD Zen 4
AMD continues improving their Error Detection And Dorrection (EDAC) driver code within the Linux kernel ahead of next-generation processors debuting later this year...
Imagination PowerVR Rogue GPU Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 22.1
In addition to the Imagination PowerVR Series 1 code drop of their late 90's era driver code, Imagination Tech has managed to successfully land its new PowerVR Rogue "PVR" Vulkan driver in time for Mesa 22.1's release next quarter...
GNOME 42 Released With Many Improvements From Wayland To GTK4 Porting
GNOME 42 is out today as the latest half-year update for this widely-used, open-source desktop environment...
Apple M1 Performance On Linux: Benchmarks Better Than Expected For Its Alpha State
Last Friday the crew at Asahi Linux led by Hector Martin released the first alpha release for running Linux on Apple Silicon hardware. I eagerly loaded up Asahi Linux on an M1-powered Apple Mac Mini knowing the various early limitations of the Linux kernel support that is still settling. Overall the Apple M1 Linux performance ended up exceeding my expectations for the performance in its early alpha state. Here are some benchmarks.
Latest Linux Code Smashes 14M IOPS Per-Core With Intel Core i9 12900K + Optane
Back in the day, 2.5 million IOPS per core was an impressive feat... That day was little more than one year ago. With faster hardware and relentless optimizations by Linux kernel developers, 14 million IOPS per core is the new record now achieved...
Imagination Posts Original Driver Code For PowerVR Series 1 GPUs As Open-Source
In addition to Imagination working on a open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver for their newest graphics IP within Mesa, Imagination Technologies has also decided to go back and publish their original PowerVR Series 1 macOS/Windows driver as open-source...
Intel + Microsoft Contribute "SIOV" I/O Virtualization Spec To Open Compute Project
Intel announced yesterday that they in cooperation with Microsoft have contributed the Scalable I/O Virtualization (SIOV) specification to the Open Compute Project for being an open standard moving forward...
Arm Neoverse Demeter & N2 Tuning Merged Into GCC 12, Experimental NVPTX Option
While GCC 12 is in stage four development and focused just on regression fixes, a few notable patches were merged this week into the codebase ahead of its official release expected in roughly a month or so...
LLVM / Clang 14.0 Prepared For Release With With Armv9, BOLT, More C++20 & C23
LLVM 14.0 and sub-projects like Clang 14 have been tagged with the official sources now available and the binaries for various platforms are beginning to be uploaded...
FBDEV Drivers See More Fixes With Linux 5.18
It's been a decade since the calls began for deprecating Linux's frame-buffer drivers "FBDEV" and the push for replacing FBDEV with DRM/KMS drivers. While DRM/KMS drivers are now commonplace even in the embedded space, FBDEV still won't die and with Linux 5.18 is seeing another round of fixes going in...
Linux 5.18's DAMON Adds DAMOS Configuration Interface
Added to the Linux kernel last year was Amazon's DAMON for data access monitoring that has seen public patches since early 2020. Since its Linux 5.15 introduction, this kernel functionality has continued to see new functionality tacked on and now for Linux 5.18 is DAMOS...
NVIDIA 510.60.02 Linux Driver Released With RTX A4000H / RTX A5500 Support, Fixes
In addition to a slew of exciting NVIDIA announcements from GTC 2022, released today was a new 510 series Linux driver build...
F2FS With Linux 5.18 Boasts Performance Improvements, Faster Recovery After Power-Cut
Jaegeuk Kim submitted the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates on Monday that today were merged to mainline for the Linux 5.19 cycle...
OpenJDK 18 Released With A Simple Web Server, UTF-8 By Default
Oracle today announced the general availability of JDK/OpenJDK 18 as the reference implementation of Java 18...
Steam On Chrome OS Finally Available In Alpha State For Select Chromebooks
After earlier this month announcing Steam for Chrome OS following months of rumors/leaks around the initiative, Google today has made an alpha build of Steam available for select Chromebooks...
NVIDIA Announces Hopper H100, Grace CPU Superchips, Jetson Orin Developer Kit
Jensen Huang has just wrapped up his GTC Spring 2022 keynote and thus the embargo has lifted on several exciting announcements from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has a lot of interesting hardware and software to talk about at this "#1 AI developer conference" from the Hopper H100 to next year's Grace CPU Superchips to the Jetson Orin.
CrossOver 21.2 Released With Fixes For Halo: Master Chief, Microsoft Office 365 On Linux
CodeWeavers is out today with CrossOver 21.2 as the newest version of their commercial downstream based on Wine that offers Windows application and game support across Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS...