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Servo Web Engine Further Tuning Performance, Screen Reader & Other New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 18:34
The Servo open-source web layout engine continues advancing with its demo Servoshell and continued work around making it suitable for embedding into other software. The Servo project this morning published their latest monthly status update to inform the community what they have been up to the past several weeks...

Intel QATlib 25.08 Brings Hugepages Support & Other Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 18:19
Intel engineers yesterday released QATlib 25.08 as the first new update in nearly one year for this QuickAssist Technology library. Intel QuickAssist allows hardware-accelerated offloading of various security authentication and compression operations from the CPU onto dedicated accelerator IP found in recent Xeon processors. Intel's QATlib is the open-source library for enabling that magic to happen from the user-space side...

Linux Phone - Hackaday

Google News - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 10:00
Linux Phone  Hackaday

AMD Bringing SmartMux Support To Linux 6.17 For Better Hybrid GPU Laptop Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 08:00
For the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle AMD already queued fixes for GPU compute on some older AMD hardware, improved debugging support for AMDGPU, and other enhancements. Sent out today was a final batch of feature changes for AMDGPU/AMDKFD expected for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. Most notable is AMD SmartMux support coming to Linux...

LLVM 21.1-rc1 Released For Testing: Better RISC-V Support, AMD GFX1250 & NVIDIA GB10

Phoronix - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 05:01
The first release candidate of LLVM 21.1 is now available for testing, which under their modern versioning scheme will represent the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack...

Linux Receiving Fix For AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Producing Lots Of Log Spam

Phoronix - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 02:34
For those using an AMD Radeon RX 500 "Polaris" graphics card on Linux and routinely suspend/resume your system, going into the Linux 6.16 kernel and then to be back-ported to the stable series is a fix where the AMDGPU driver could end up producing a lot of spam in the kernel log...

New FFmpeg AVX-512 Optimizations Hit Up To 36x The Performance Of Plain C Code

Phoronix - Fri, 07/18/2025 - 01:06
Some commits merged today to FFmpeg Git provide additional hand-tuned Assembly code for AVX-512 with capable Intel and AMD processors...

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