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SiFive Shifting Production Focus To Next-Gen HiFive Development Board

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 03:22
SiFive's HiFive Unmatched is the best, readily available RISC-V developer board at the moment with enough horsepower for modest development/porting work and continues seeing improvements with the mainline Linux kernel. But availability on HiFive Unmatched is beginning to dry up and SiFive isn't planning on any further production runs as it begins focusing on the board's successor...

Mesa 22.0 Gets RADV Ray-Tracing Performance Boost By Using Wave32 Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 02:30
Landing today for Mesa 22.0 was a fix for Vulkan ray-tracing with the RADV driver in the RDNA Wave32 shader mode and then switching to Wave32 by default for ray-tracing on RDNA/RDNA2 GPUs...

Looking At The New "Critical" Security Firmware Update Hitting Systems - Delivers New Intel Microcode

Phoronix - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 22:19
Earlier this week the Linux Vendor Firmware Service began surging with activity following many new system firmware files being uploaded for what appears to be a "high severity upcoming security issue" but currently undisclosed. That issue hasn't been made public yet, but after poking around it is updating the Intel CPU microcode.

A Look At Alder Lake Against Older CPUs Going Back To Sandy Bridge, Kaveri

Phoronix - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 20:13
After recently carrying out the Core i5 12400 Linux benchmarks against other modern processors, for curiosity I ran some benchmarks on some older hardware going back to AMD Kaveri and Intel Sandy Bridge for a look at how the modern Ubuntu performance compares across all those systems...

X.Org Foundation May Find A New Organization To Join

Phoronix - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 18:33
For the past several years the X.Org Foundation has been part of Software in the Public Interest (SPI) but are now considering other possible arrangements moving forward...

Linux 5.17 Adds GPU Recovery Support For AMD Rembrandt APUs

Phoronix - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 18:06
On top of all the GPU driver feature changes to merge last week, yesterday marked the first batch of "fixes" sent in to Linux 5.17 for the Direct Rendering Manager drivers. Notable from this batch of fixes is getting GPU recovery enabled for Yellow Carp / Rembrandt APUs...

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