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Debian 12 "Bookworm" Set For Release Next Week With Around 100 Known Bugs

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 04:00
Debian 12 remains on track for releasing next week even with around 100 known RC bugs that likely won't be resolved pre-release. The Debian release team says overall things are on-track...

Linux 6.4-rc5 Released - The Kernel Is Looking To Be In Good Shape

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 02:30
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.4-rc5 as the latest weekly test candidate for Linux 6.4 and this kernel version is looking to be in good shape for a likely release in late June...

LLVM Flang Begins Seeing NVIDIA CUDA Fortran Support

Phoronix - Sun, 06/04/2023 - 20:15
The LLVM Fortran compiler "Flang" has begun seeing NVIDIA CUDA support land in the upstream code-base...

RadeonSI ACO Code Lands More Functionality

Phoronix - Sun, 06/04/2023 - 18:40
The ACO "Amd COmpiler" started by Valve for the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has shown it can do wonders for Linux gaming performance and reducing game load times compared to AMD's official AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. Recently thanks to the work of Qiang Yu there has been much work hitting upstream Mesa for beginning to enable using the ACO compiler by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Google Chrome Begins Rollout Of New "Maglev" Mid-Tier Compiler

Phoronix - Sun, 06/04/2023 - 18:09
With Chrome 114 is the start of Google beginning to roll-out Maglev as their new mid-tier compiler for further enhancing the JavaScript browser performance...

Experimental Patches For Rust-Written Linux Network Drivers

Phoronix - Sun, 06/04/2023 - 17:50
A new set of patches this weekend begin laying the groundwork for Rust abstractions for Linux network device drivers so that Rust code can be used for constructing new network device drivers. The patches also include a dummy Rust network driver...

AMD Has Open-Source Ryzen AI Demo Code - But Only For Windows

Phoronix - Sun, 06/04/2023 - 07:56
One of the most interesting aspects of the new AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptop processors is the new "Ryzen AI" capabilities with the new XDNA AI engine capabilities built into the SoC, leveraging IP from their Xilinx acquisition. Linux support details remain scarce but at least one of their (Windows) demos for showcasing Ryzen AI is open-source...

AMD Graphics Driver In Linux 6.5 Improves Power Management, Adds CP Shadow Buffer

Phoronix - Sat, 06/03/2023 - 21:00
On Friday a big set of patches affecting the AMDGPU/Radeon/AMDKFD kernel drivers were submitted for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 6.5 kernel merge window opens in the coming weeks. A lot of new feature code is part of this pull for benefiting new hardware, continuing to refine AMD GPU power management under Linux, and more...

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