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AMD Releases Updated CPU Microcode For Zen 3 CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 02/19/2022 - 02:50
AMD today pushed updated Family 19h / Zen 3 CPU microcode to the linux-firmware.git tree...

AMD Quietly Working On New Linux GPU Driver Support Block By Block

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 22:30
AMD's Linux graphics driver engineers have been working on the driver support for new graphics processors and now the patches are at the earliest stages of publishing. However, due to driver handling changes, it's sharply different this time around where in the past they volleyed a big set of patches under some colorful fishy codename in an effort to conceal their hardware enablement work...

Linux 5.18 Scheduler Change To Further Boost AMD EPYC Performance For Some Workloads

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 19:05
While AMD EPYC processors already deliver great performance under Linux, with the Linux 5.18 kernel this spring is a scheduler improvement that can provide measurable speed-ups for various workloads on processors where there are multiple last level caches (LLCs) per node, such as with the case of EPYC...

Intel Sends In DG2-G12 Support For Linux 5.18 Along With Other Changes

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 18:25
Building off Intel graphics driver code already staged for the upcoming Linux 5.18 merge window, another round of feature changes were sent in this week to DRM-Next for adding to the queue ahead of this next kernel cycle...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Could See Improved Test Coverage Thanks To Google

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 18:09
While the X.Org Foundation didn't participate in Google Summer of Code last year amid GSoC project changes, with this year's GSoC design having incorporate feedback from last year's changes, X.Org is hoping to once again participate in this summer initiative that sees student developers contribute to and engage with open-source projects. So far under the X.Org umbrella there is one project idea being solicited that has willing mentors and that is for improving the unit testing coverage of the AMDGPU kernel driver...

LLVMpipe Patches Pending For Faster Vertex/Fragment Processing

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 16:00
Red Hat's David Airlie continues carrying out almost magical work on the open-source Linux graphics stack. Reviving some work he originally started a while back, patches pending for Mesa allow speeding up the software-based LLVMpipe OpenGL driver for vertex and fragment shader processing...

Add, switch, delete, and manage Linux users in KDE

opensource.com - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 16:00

Sharing a computer in a household is usually a pretty casual affair. When you need the computer, you pick it up and start using it. It's simple in theory, and mostly works. That is, until you accidentally grab the common computer and accidentally post screenshots of your server's uptime to your partner's cooking blog. Then it's time for separate user accounts.


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