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XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 22:29
There's just under one month to go now until the X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) returns to A Coruña, Spain for the annual development conference focused on open-source graphics drivers (Mesa), Wayland, and related Linux display/graphics infrastructure although the X.Org Server itself hasn't received much attention in recent years. Here's a look at some of the planned talks for the exciting XDC 2023...

Glibc Lands HWCAPs Support For LoongArch

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 22:14
When it comes to Glibc HWCAPs for allowing the C library to load optimized libraries based upon the CPU features at run-time, it's mostly been focused on the x86_64 world for targeting higher x86-64 levels or being able to load optimized libraries for systems with AVX support. Loongson though has now contributed initial LoongArch HWCAPs support...

HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 20:27
While Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) isn't as common on Arm SoCs as it is in the x86 and POWER worlds, there are some SMT-capable designs like with the HiSilicon Kupeng 930 for Arm servers. HiSilicon engineers are working now to extend Linux's SMT run-time controls to work on ARM64 (AArch64)...

GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 18:34
In addition to Oracle releasing OpenJDK 21 / Java 21 on Tuesday, their GraalVM team also carried out a same-day release of GraalVM with the new Java 21 features and more...

NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 18:23
NVIDIA's latest patches intended for the upstream Linux kernel are over on the networking side of the house with their Mellanox wares as they prepare 800Gb/s (XDR) support within the RDMA/InfiniBand code...

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