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Intel P-State Changes Could Improve iGPU-Bound Performance - Some Cases ~15%, ~43% Perf-Per-Watt
We've known that Intel's P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver in general can be a bit quirky and especially so when dealing with Intel integrated graphics where the iGPU and CPU share the same power envelope. This has been shown with examples like using the "powersave" governor to boost iGPU performance while discrete graphics owners are generally best off switching over to the "performance" governor. As the latest though on helping the iGPU front with P-State, there is a new patch series talking up big gains in performance and power efficiency...
LVI Attack Hits Intel SGX - Defeats Existing Mitigations, More Performance Hits
Load Value Injection (LVI) is being disclosed today as a new class of transient-execution attacks and the researchers claim can defeat all existing mitigations around Meltdown, Foreshadow, Zombieload, RIDL and Fallout. The researchers say LVI can affect virtually any access to memory and compiler-based mitigations can be expensive...
The Staging exFAT Driver Set To Be Nuked In Linux 5.7, Thanks To Samsung's New Driver
With the Linux 5.7 kernel this spring there is going to be a new exFAT file-system drive developed by Samsung as outlined last week. While that is being added to the formal file-system area of the kernel rather than staging so both could co-exist for a transition period, already with Linux 5.7 will be the removal of the existing staging driver...
RenderDoc 1.7 Released With Vulkan Improvements, Better D3D12 Capture Performance
RenderDoc 1.7 is out today for this cross-platform graphics debugging/profiling tool that supports Vulkan, Direct3D, and OpenGL graphics APIs across all major platforms...
Git 2.26-rc1 Released With More Improvements For This Distributed Version Control System
Git 2.26-rc1 is out this morning as the newest test version of this distributed version control system...
Firefox 74 Begins Rolling Out With DNS-Over-HTTPS, Disabling TLS 1.0/1.1
While we are very excited for Firefox 75 with Wayland and video acceleration improvements along with maturing Flatpak support, out today is Firefox 74.0 as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser...
Sculpt OS 20.02 Released - Built Off Genode, Now Includes File Manager + Editor
Sculpt OS is the general purpose operating system built off the Genode operating system framework. Out now is their version 20.02 update that tries to make the OS more approachable...
VideoLAN's dav1d 0.6 Released With More AVX2 + AVX-512 Optimizations
Dav1d 0.6 is now available as a big update to this open-source AV1 video decoder developed by the VideoLAN crew...
LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling
The LibreOffice open-source office suite's Qt5 tool-kit integration so far has lacked HiDPI scaling support for dealing with modern high pixel density displays. But adding to the excitement for the LibreOffice 7.0 release later this year is now the Qt5 HiDPI scaling capability...
AMD Is Hiring Another Lead Linux Kernel Developer To Work On Their Graphics Driver
Should you be experienced in upstream Linux kernel development, AMD is hiring a lead Linux kernel developer...
Mesa 19.3.5 Released To End Out The Series, Time To Move To Mesa 20.0
Mesa 19.3.5 was released today for ending out the Mesa 19.3 series as the Q4'2019 OpenGL/Vulkan driver release stream...
Mozilla Making Progress With Offering Firefox As A Flatpak On Linux
Mozilla engineers have been making good progress on being able to ship a Flatpak'ed Firefox web browser for better security/sandboxing and easier distribution on Linux systems...
Basemark GPU 1.2 Brings Linux Support - Wins For NVIDIA, Woes For Mesa
Last week Basemark launched their Basemark GPU 1.2 benchmark that now includes Linux support alongside all other major supported desktop and mobile operating systems. We've been testing out this Linux version with OpenGL and Vulkan support on both AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce hardware.
New High Quality GPU Compression Codec Going Open-Source In The Coming Days
Compression experts Rich Geldreich and Stephanie Hurlburt with their Binomial consulting firm are about to release a high-quality open-source compression codec for GPUs...
Intel's Compute Runtime Adds oneAPI Level Zero Support
Intel's open-source Compute Runtime for OpenCL and now oneAPI support on Linux has added oneAPI Level Zero support...
Fujitsu A64FX Support Added To The LLVM Clang 11 Compiler
Fujitsu has contributed support for their high-performance A64FX ARMv8-based CPU cores to the LLVM Clang compiler...
Memcached 1.6 Released With Enhanced Performance For This Memory Caching System
Memcached 1.6 was released on Sunday as a big update for this popular open-source distributed memory caching system...
LLVM Clang 10 Can Build Over 95% Of The Debian Package Archive
While the Debian archive continues to be built with the GCC compiler by default and will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future, Debian developers do continue experimenting with building the Debian archive under LLVM's Clang...
Linux 5.6-rc5 Kernel Released
Linus Torvalds has unveiled the fifth weekly release candidate to the forthcoming Linux 5.6 kernel...
The New Compiler Features Of LLVM 10.0 / Clang 10.0
After running behind schedule from the planned release last month and an extra release candidate being warranted, LLVM 10.0 should be releasing this coming weeks along with its sub-projects -- most notably, the Clang 10.0 C/C++ compiler. Here is a look at the big ticket items of LLVM/Clang 10.0...