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GCC Compiler Adds Software Workaround To Avoid Intel Downfall Performance Hit

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 21:48
With the Intel Downfall vulnerability made public last week (also known as GDS - "Gather Data Sampling") there can be a sizable hit to AVX workloads making use of the GATHER instructions. For helping to lower the impact of Downfall/GDS on mitigated systems, Intel has made a change to the GNU Compiler Collection to disable GATHER generation in vectorization for Intel CPU families affected by this vulnerability...

Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS - Allowing More Linux Apps To Run On Chromebooks

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 20:00
Distrobox as the open-source project allowing easy access to running other distributions/apps via Podman and Docker has merged support for ChromeOS...

LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 18:26
In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch "Loong64" as a new Debian Port...

XWayland 23.2 Released With Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, EI Support

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 18:09
XWayland 23.2 is out as stable today for this X.Org Server code for enjoying X11 window/client support within Wayland compositors. Several new features are implemented for this XWayland 23.2 milestone...

Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 18:00
Mozilla Firefox has merged Wayland fractional-scale-v1 protocol support for handling fractional scaling with the web browser on the Linux desktop...

Imagination Tech Posts Updated PowerVR Linux DRM Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 08/16/2023 - 17:57
Imagination Technologies has posted the fifth iteration of their driver patches for supporting PowerVR Rogue graphics with an open-source Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver that will go along with their Mesa PVR Vulkan driver...

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