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Initial Support For The Apple M1 Lands In Linux 5.13

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 04:35

As expected, support for the initial Apple M1 SoC support and 2020 Apple Silicon devices (Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air) has landed into the Linux 5.13 kernel...

AMD EPYC 72F3 Linux Performance For 8-Core Zen 3 Server CPU

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 01:20

Over the past month we have been quite impressed by the performance of the EPYC 7003 series Milan processors when looking at the top-tier parts, but how does Zen 3 do for lower-tier server CPUs? Recently we were supplied with two EPYC 72F3 processors from AMD for these 8-core high performance SKUs. In our initial look at the EPYC 72F3 Linux performance is seeing how they compare to the similar previous-generation EPYC 7F32 processor.

Linux 5.13 Bringing Code For Intel SGX Within KVM Guests

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 23:42

Linux 5.11 brought mainline support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) after a lengthy mainlining process. Building off that SGX enclaves support in the mainline kernel more recently has been support for SGX with KVM virtualization and now for mainline Linux 5.13 that guest-side support is landing for KVM guests...

OpenCL 3.0.7 Released With New Extensions

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 22:09

The Khronos Group used the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL 2021) to release OpenCL 3.0.7 as the latest OpenCL 3 revision that brings with it some new extensions...

GNU Linux-Libre 5.12 Released After More Driver Deblobbing, Dedicated To A Cat

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 21:18

Freshly re-based against yesterday's Linux 5.12 kernel, GNU Linux-Libre 5.12-gnu is now available as the latest version of this GNU cleansed kernel now carrying a codename of "Freedo Misses Tasha"...

Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 20:48

Flatpak 1.11.1 is out this morning as the first development step towards the eventual Flatpak 1.12 stable release...

FWUPD 1.6 Released For Latest Linux Firmware Updating Capabilities

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 19:25

Version 1.6 of FWUPD is now available for firmware updating of motherboard BIOS and other device firmware under Linux...

Linux 5.13 Adding KCPUID For Helping To Bring-Up New x86 CPUs

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 19:07

The "x86/misc" pull request this morning for the newly-opened Linux 5.13 merge window adds the new KCPUID utility contributed by Intel...

Vulkan 1.2.177 Released To Help Graphics Translation Layers

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 18:15

Vulkan 1.2.177 is out today as the newest version of the Vulkan specification and this time around introduces one new extension that aims to help OpenGL translation layers and potentially other implementations atop this graphics API...

Linux 5.13 Merge Window Kicks Off With Microsoft Surface Improvements, Gigabyte WMI Driver

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 18:03

Following yesterday's Linux 5.12 release the merge window for Linux 5.13 is officially open. One of the first pull requests of this new merge window is for the platform-drivers-x86 updates, which primarily encompass Intel/AMD Linux laptop driver support improvements and other related x86 platform drivers...

MuSE 4.0 Free Software Digital Audio Workstation Brings Redesigned UI

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 17:28

MuSE is a MIDI and audio sequencer with audio recording and editing support. MuSE supports plug-ins to form a complete digital audio workstation. This GPL-licensed audio software is now up to version 4.0 and with it comes a redesigned user-interface...

Linux 5.12 Released With Intel Xe Variable Rate Refresh, Clang LTO, KFENCE + More

Mon, 04/26/2021 - 05:16

After a week delay, the Linux 5.12 kernel was just released as stable...

GCC 11 Releasing Next Week With Intel AMX, New CPU Support, More C++20/C++23

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 20:24

GCC 11 is expected to be released next week following its recent release candidates...

LunarG Is Hiring Another Graphics Driver Engineer

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 18:25

LunarG, the consulting firm known for their contributions around Vulkan and also having been involved with Mesa development over the years and experimenting with Gallium3D features and other interesting efforts like the past LunarGLASS, is looking to hire another experienced graphics driver development engineer...

IBM Turns To More Optimizations For Linux On POWER10

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 18:02

With it appearing all the essentials are in place for IBM POWER10 Linux support, in recent days we have seen an uptick in patches from IBM engineers working on POWER10 performance optimizations...

University of Minnesota Linux "Hypocrite Commit" Researchers Publish Open Letter

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 08:30

The drama in kernel land this week was University of Minnesota being banned from Linux kernel development over research they previously carried out looking at "hypocrite commits" and the possibility of intentionally introducing vulnerabilities (such as use-after-free bugs) into the kernel source tree. This weekend those researchers involved published an open letter to the Linux kernel community...