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Linux-Firmware Adds Updated Binary For Fixing Performance With RX 5600 XT vBIOS Update

Wed, 02/05/2020 - 03:34
With last month's release of the Radeon RX 5600 XT as quite a capable sub-$300 graphics card there was a new video BIOS at launch-day to significantly improve the performance even more. But that updated vBIOS was causing issues with the Linux driver. The necessary fix has now landed in linux-firmware.git as the necessary SMC firmware update for Navi...

Rav1e 0.3 Is Releasing Soon For Faster Rust-Based AV1 Encoding

Wed, 02/05/2020 - 02:06
Rav1e v0.2 brought 40~70% speed improvements over its previous release for this Rustlang-based AV1 video encoder but the upcoming Rav1e 0.3 will be even faster...

Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G Is A Great Intel Workstation Motherboard For Linux/BSD Systems

Wed, 02/05/2020 - 01:21
For those building an Intel Core X-series system, the Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G is the board we have been relying upon for our Cascadelake-X testing over the past two months and it has continued working out phenomenally for being a feature-rich platform while playing nicely with the various Linux distributions and BSDs tested.

Jailhouse 0.12 Hypervisor Adds Raspberry Pi 4 Support

Wed, 02/05/2020 - 00:16
Siemens continues investing in Jailhouse as a Linux-based simplicity-minded partitioning hypervisor catering to bare metal appliances. Jailhouse 0.12 is out today as their first feature update since last summer and comes with numerous hardware support improvements and new features...

Could JPEG2000 Finally Take Off In 2020? It's A Possibility With High Throughput HTJ2K

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 22:56
While the standard is now two decades old and has yet to unseat the JPEG image standard in popularity, there is renewed interest in JPEG2000 with High Throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) and finally seeing increased software support. Collabora's Aaron Boxer thinks that JPEG2000 could finally be going mainstream...

Fedora 32 Install Media Unlikely To Lose Weight But Fedora 33 Could Be Zstd'ed

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 21:01
There had been a proposal to better compress the Fedora 32 install media via SquashFS without the nested EXT4 file-system setup for its live images and also ramping up the XZ compression. But this proposal was rejected at yesterday's engineering meeting on the basis that a more optimal compression path could be utilized...

seL4 Microkernel Being Ported To RISC-V

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 20:45
The seL4 micro-kernel that is focused on delivering robust security and performance is being ported to the RISC-V architecture...

Linux 5.5-ck1 Released With Latest MuQSS Scheduler

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 20:11
Following last week's release of Linux 5.5, Con Kolivas is out today with his latest "CK" patch-set and MuQSS scheduler for this new kernel version...

Early Out Of Tree Patches Let Wine Run Natively On Wayland

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 19:53
Not yet mainlined but there is a Git repository offering up a Wine Wayland driver implementation for letting Windows applications/games run atop a Wayland compositor without any dependence on X11/XWayland...

The Modern Flang "f18" Compiler Is The Most Exciting Fortran Compiler Of Recent Times

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 13:10
While merging of the Flang "f18" Fortran compiler into the LLVM source tree was delayed in January, this is still looking like the most exciting Fortran open-source compiler in development...

The Current State of AMD Zen Coreboot Support: Basically Limited To Chromebooks

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 08:20
Firmware developer Michał Żygowski of embedded consulting firm 3mdeb has provided a convenient overview over the current state of AMD Coreboot support for booting with this open-source alternative to conventional proprietary BIOS...

Intel's Linux Graphics Stack Is Close To Landing A Code-Generator Generator

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 05:14
Intel's Linux graphics stack has seen a lot of major changes in recent years besides the addition of their "ANV" Vulkan driver. The Intel Linux OpenGL driver saw their new Gallium3D driver, NIR has come about as the new intermediate representation used across their drivers, and other fundamental changes and improvements. The latest underlying work is introducing a pattern-based code generator for their graphics compiler...

The $199 Motile M141 With AMD Ryzen 3 3200U Offers Surprisingly Decent Performance

Tue, 02/04/2020 - 00:32
Last week we published benchmarks of the Motile M141, Walmart's private-label tech branch, and the M141 being a Ryzen 3 3200U powered laptop that has been retailing for just $199 USD. In those initial benchmarks was an extensive look at the Windows vs. Linux performance while this article today is looking at the performance of this AMD Ryzen 3 laptop against a number of old and new Intel laptops, all tested using a daily snapshot of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Codeplay Brings SYCL, Intel DPC++ To NVIDIA GPUs

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 23:38
Codeplay announced last year they were working on an open-source layer for running Intel's oneAPI and Data Parallel C++ on NVIDIA GPUs and as part of that supporting Khronos' SYCL on NVIDIA hardware. Today they revealed more details on this achievement and new software layer...

NVIDIA 440.59 Linux Driver Brings DP MST Audio, PRIME Sync For Linux 5.4+

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 23:08
NVIDIA has kicked off February by releasing the 440.59 Linux driver as their newest stable driver...

AMD's Zen 2 Scheduler Model Gets Partially Fixed Up In LLVM

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 22:00
Landing in the LLVM compiler infrastructure code-base in January was finally an AMD Zen 2 scheduler model optimized for the latest-generation AMD processors when compiling code with Clang using the -march=znver2 targeting. However, now some important fixes to this scheduler model have landed...

GRUB 2.06 Planning For Release This Year - Possibly With Intel TXT + AMD SKINIT Support

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 20:42
Oracle's Daniel Kiper provided an update on the GRUB boot-loader efforts and their hopes on sticking to a yearly release cadence...

Hikari Is A FreeBSD-Focused X11 Window Manager + Wayland Compositor

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 20:27
Hikari is a stacking window manager with tiling support that has also work-in-progress code for serving as a Wayland compositor. However, unlike most X11 window managers and Wayland compositors being focused on Linux systems, Hikari is BSD-focused...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Better Handle Power Savings During Compute Workloads

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 15:14
Over the past week have been two patch series in working to enable BACO (Bus Active, Chip Off) support and in turn power management capabilities when using AMDKFD (Kernel Fusion Driver) for compute workloads...

Haiku R1 Beta 2 Is Hopefully Not Too Far Away

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 13:09
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system that has been in development since 2001 saw its long-awaited beta release in late 2018 while it looks like a second beta release could be on approach for this open-source operating system...

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