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Intel Scores Another Nice Arc Graphics Boost On Linux For Summer 2023

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 23:19
Just days after covering a recent ~10% speed-up for the Intel Arc Graphics on Linux, another optimization has landed in Mesa 23.3-devel for further enhancing Intel's latest graphics wares with their open-source driver stack.

Per-Policy CPU Performance Boosting Proposed For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 20:52
For processors supporting CPU performance boosting with higher performance states available beyond the base states, Linux allows toggling the boosting on a per-CPU basis. However, a new patch proposed this week would allow per-policy performance boosting where capable...

AMD Begins Rolling Out Driver Patches For Next-Gen GPU IP Blocks

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 20:00
As part of AMD's recent Linux graphics driver development approach of enabling new GPU support gradually on a IP block-by-block basis rather than big monolithic patch series marked by colorful fishy codenames, it's worked out well for getting new hardware support rolling into the kernel early and without revealing any combined details on yet-to-be-released graphics processors. This week has seen some new IP block patches surface...

Loongson Binary Translation Slated For Linux 6.6 - Helping MIPS / x86 / ARM On LoongArch

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 18:22
Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) support for the Chinese LoongArch CPU architecture is slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle. Loongson Binary Translation aims to help speed-up and handle ARM / x86 / MIPS binary translation on LoongArch more efficiently with capable LoongArch processors...

EROFS File-System Adding DEFLATE Compression Support

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 18:09
While the EROFS Linux read-only file-system already supports LZ4 and microLZMA support, Zlib DEFLATE support is also being worked on and could be introduced in the next Linux kernel cycle...

FreeRDP 3.0 Beta Brings AAD/AVD Authentication, WebSocket Transport

Phoronix - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 17:52
The first beta is out of FreeRDP 3.0, the open-source Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation of that proprietary Microsoft protocol for remote desktop/GUI handling...

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