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MSI Laptops To Enjoy Better Linux Support Beginning With The 6.4 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 03/30/2023 - 23:30
Modern MSI laptops will see improved feature support with the upstream Linux 6.4 kernel this summer thanks to a new driver set to be merged...

AMD EPYC Milan Still Gives Intel Sapphire Rapids Tough Competition In The Cloud

Phoronix - Thu, 03/30/2023 - 22:30
While waiting for AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" instances to become available via the major public cloud providers, I was curious to see how existing AMD EPYC Milan instances compare to Intel's new Sapphire Rapids instances in public preview on Google Cloud. While expecting some friendly competition, at the same vCPU size EPYC Milan was managing to deliver not only better performance-per-dollar but also even better raw performance in numerous workloads against the Google Cloud C3 Sapphire Rapids.

VP9/AV1 Simulcast Support For WebRTC Coming In Chrome 113

Phoronix - Thu, 03/30/2023 - 21:50
VP8 and H.264 have long been supported as part of WebRTC simulcast in the Chrome web browser while with the upcoming Chrome 113 release, VP9 and AV1 simulcast support is being enabled...

EEVDF Scheduler Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 03/30/2023 - 20:24
Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra has sent out updated patches on the kernel patch series he's been working on the past several months around the "EEVDF" CPU scheduler for improving upon the current CFS scheduler code...

Another Budget Gigabyte Ryzen Motherboard Gets Working Sensor Support With Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Thu, 03/30/2023 - 18:46
For those that happen to have a Gigabyte A320M-S2H V2 micro-ATX motherboard or you have been looking out for a low-end, budget motherboard for an AMD Ryzen AM4 build, the A320M-S2H V2 is the latest seeing working sensor support with the mainline Linux kernel...

Arm Scalable Matrix Extension 2 "SME2" Support Lands In GNU Binutils

Phoronix - Thu, 03/30/2023 - 18:30
Toward the end of last year Arm detailed Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2) for adding more capabilities to Armv9-A around speedy matrix processing. Merged this morning is initial support for SME2 within Binutils as part of the GNU compiler toolchain for the GNU Assembler...

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