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XFS Online Repair Functionality To Undergo A Massive Design Review

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 19:35

The XFS file-system updates have been submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...

AMD Recruiting More Linux Engineers For Debug, CXL Enablement & More

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 19:00

I was informed that AMD has a few more Linux positions open at the company. While they have in past years been rather nimble with their Linux staffing, things continue to change thanks to their ongoing successes in the marketplace from the consumer side with Steam Deck through the likes of Tesla's infotainment system up through high-end server platforms...

SDL_sound 2.0 Released As First Update In Nearly 14 Years

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 18:56

Longtime Linux game porter and SDL developer Ryan Gordon released SDL_sound 2.0 as the first release of this sound component to the Simple DirectMedia Library in nearly fourteen years...

The Switch Has Been Made From C89 To C11/GNU11 With Linux 5.18

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 18:05

As we approach the end of the first week of the Linux 5.18 merge window, another note worthy pull request to land is the switching of the C language standard from GNU89 (C89) to GNU11 (C11)...

Linux 5.18 Moves Ahead With Deprecating ReiserFS

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 17:30

Following the recent developer discussions around deprecating and removing the ReiserFS file-system from the mainline kernel, the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel is going ahead and deprecating it...

GCC Compiler Accepts China's MIPS-Derived LoongArch CPU Port

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 17:11

The GCC steering committee has signed off on the LoongArch compiler port and could still land for the GCC 12 stable compiler release in a few weeks...

Wine 7.5 Released With HLSL Compiler Support For Bundled VKD3D

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 06:04

Wine 7.5 is out as the latest bi-weekly software update for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

"Dozen" Merged Into Mesa For Implementing Vulkan On Direct3D 12

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 01:20

Merged a few minutes ago into Mesa 22.1 is the "Dozen" project implementing Vulkan atop Direct3D 12 APIs...

AMD's GPUOpen Releases Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0

Sat, 03/26/2022 - 01:10

AMD today released Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0 under their GPUOpen umbrella as this library to better manage memory allocation and resources for this graphics API and make it more similar to APIs like OpenGL and Direct3D...

Intel Software Defined Silicon, AMD HSMP Submitted For Linux 5.18

Fri, 03/25/2022 - 21:38

The x86 platform driver updates have been submitted for the Linux 5.18 kernel merge window. This pull request includes a number of notable additions we have been talking about over recent weeks and months on Phoronix...

AMD Making It Easier To Switch To Their New P-State CPU Frequency Scaling Driver

Fri, 03/25/2022 - 19:18

Following our how-to guide for enabling the new AMD P-State driver that premiered in Linux 5.17 after finding many users were unsure to go about using this new CPU frequency scaling driver, AMD is now making it easier to switch from ACPI CPUFreq to AMD P-State...

Zhaoxin Finally Adding "Lujiazui" x86_64 CPU Tuning To GCC

Fri, 03/25/2022 - 18:08

Introduced back in 2019 by the VIA + Shanghai owned Zhaoxin was the ZX-E / KX-6000 series x86_64 processors. Finally in 2022 the proper GCC compiler tuning support has been published for these processors that are part of the "Lujiazui" microarchitecture...

Intel Continues Preparing CXL With Linux 5.18

Fri, 03/25/2022 - 17:49

While Compute Express Link (CXL) is an open industry standard backed by many notable hardware vendors, Intel engineers as usual are leading the charge when it comes to the Linux kernel bring-up. Intel engineers continue working on the Linux support around this high speed CPU-to-device/memory interface built atop PCIe...

FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 3 Enables Reproducible Kernel Build Option By Default

Fri, 03/25/2022 - 17:21

FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 3 is out as the latest weekly test build for this upcoming BSD operating system update...

Linux 5.18 Has Many Apple Keyboard Improvements, New Razer Driver & Tablet Improvements

Fri, 03/25/2022 - 12:00

The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...

NVIDIA Working On Support For Valve's Gamescope Wayland Compositor

Fri, 03/25/2022 - 07:42

Valve's Gamescope Wayland compositor is what was born out of their former Steamcompmgr effort but rewritten to target Wayland, interfacing directly with DRM/KMS APIs for enhanced efficiency, and making use of Vulkan. To date Gamescope has worked with the Intel and Radeon open-source Linux graphics driver stacks while the NVIDIA proprietary driver is seeing work in the direction of supporting it...

Windows vs. Linux Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen Server Performance

Fri, 03/25/2022 - 03:00

As a follow-up to last week's article looking at how AMD is making an interesting case for budget-friendly Ryzen dedicated servers and not only in Europe but throughout the world more hosting providers are offering cost-conscious AMD Ryzen powered dedicated server options, here is a look at how various Linux distributions run on an ASRock Rack based AMD Ryzen server up against Microsoft Windows.