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Libre-SoC Open-Source GPU/VPU Project Loses Key Funding
Longtime Phoronix readers may recall the Libre-SoC project that for the past 5+ years has been wanting to build a libre/open-source SoC for graphics acceleration and other uses...
Mold Linker Performance Remains Very Compelling In 2024 Over GNU Gold/ld, LLVM lld
The Mold high performance linker has long been known for offering excellent performance over GNU Gold/ld and LLVM lld while some fresh benchmark numbers reinforce the competitive advantage that persists today for this open-source project...
RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1
With the Mesa 24.1-devel Git code as of this morning, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 for Vulkan Video accelerated decoding of AV1 video content...
Intel HFI Driver Can "Save Tons Of CPU Cycles" By Only Enabling Itself When Needed
The Linux kernel has supported the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" via the "intel_hfi" driver since 2022 for bettering supporting Core hybrid processors. The Intel HFI can be used for communicating performance and energy efficiency capabilities of individual CPU cores of the system. In turn the Linux kernel can leverage Intel HFI details for better task placement among the available CPU cores/threads. With a new patch series, the Intel HFI driver can "save tons of CPU cycles" by only enabling it when needed...
AMD Preparing ROCm 6.1 For Release With New Features
It looks like AMD will soon be announcing the ROCm 6.1 update to its open-source GPU compute stack...
FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics
The first release candidate of FreeBSD 13.3 is now available for testing. While FreeBSD 14 stable has been out now for months, FreeBSD 13.3 is the latest in the prior series for those continuing to rely on FreeBSD 13 in production...