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Intel's One Line Of Linux Code For Speeding-Up Sapphire Rapids On Ubuntu

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 22:00
Recently I noticed out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux the performance of Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors was much improved for some workloads compared to tests done just weeks ago on the same Sapphire Rapids server. It ended up being an issue coming full-circle and ultimately boils down to one line of code added within the Linux kernel.

Open 3D Engine 23.05 Released With Many New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 21:00
It's been just under two years since Amazon's Lumberyard game engine was spun into the Open 3D Engine and the Open 3D Foundation established under the Linux Foundation. Today the project is celebrating its newest open-source game engine update with Open 3D Engine 23.05...

X.Org Foundation To Become Part Of The SFC

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 20:25
X.Org members have approved of the X.Org Foundation letting the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) become its fiscal sponsor...

AMD SoundWire Merged For Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 18:34
Going back to 2016 Intel began working on MIPI SoundWire support for Linux and now in 2023, AMD has joined the party with their initial AMD SoundWire support driver landing in the mainline kernel...

Printk Changes For Linux 6.4 Are Light With Still Waiting For Threaded/Atomic Console

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 18:20
The printk code changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.4 merge window and it's notable not for what is in the pull request but rather what is still outstanding...

GPUOpen's Render Pipeline Shaders 1.1 Released With Linux Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 18:14
At the end of last year AMD's GPUOpen group released the Render Pipeline Shaders "RPS" SDK for graphics applications and engines leveraging Direct3D 12 or Vulkasn as an open-source render graph framework. On Wednesday the Render Pipeline Shaders SDK 1.1 was released and is complemented by Linux support...

Chrome 114 Beta Brings CSS Headline Balancing, CHIPS, Popover API

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 18:00
Following this week's release of the Chrome 113 web browser with faster AV1 encoding, Google engineers have promoted Chrome 114 to their beta channel...

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