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Intel Proposes Adding Full SYCL Programming Model Support To Upstream LLVM

Phoronix - Mon, 10/16/2023 - 20:52
Intel engineers are proposing that full support for the SYCL programming model be added to upstream LLVM. This is part of their broader oneAPI effort and embracing Khronos' SYCL standard for single-source C++ heterogeneous programming from CPUs to GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators...

Intel Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Clear Water Forest & Panther Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 10/16/2023 - 18:52
Intel continues to do a splendid job at ensuring the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang upstream compilers have support for their new processor cores well in advance of products shipping. Beyond already having Sierra Forest, Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake support already in upstream GCC, today one of the Intel compiler engineers sent out patches for enabling the Clear Water Forest and Panther Lake cores...

Intel La Jolla Cove Adapter "LJCA" Drivers Coming With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Mon, 10/16/2023 - 18:39
The USB I2C / SPI / GPIO drivers for Intel's La Jolla Cove Adapter (LCJA) are set to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel merge window opening at the end of the month...

Rust-Written Coreutils Increases GNU Compatibility, Adds NetBSD Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/16/2023 - 18:26
Released on Sunday was uutils 0.0.22 as the open-source software aiming to be a drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils while being written in the Rust programming language for memory safety, better performance, and a modernized codebase...

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