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With Linux 6.6, Intel Restoring Panel Self Refresh For Aging Haswell/Broadwell Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 08/04/2023 - 03:52
It's been ten years since Intel launched the Haswell processors that were great for the time followed by Broadwell. On the laptop side for Haswell and Broadwell the Panel Self Refresh (PSR) power-savings support has been rather notorious at least on the Linux side. Finally for the Linux 6.6 kernel due out in late 2023, the developers are re-enabling PSR support for these aging laptops...

What is Embedded Linux? - Robotics and Automation News

Google News - Fri, 08/04/2023 - 03:28
What is Embedded Linux?  Robotics and Automation News

Linux Patches Updated To Fix Latest Suspend/Resume Issues For Some AMD Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 08/04/2023 - 01:39
An updated patch-set was sent out on Wednesday to address fixing wake-up problems for some AMD client platforms when going through a suspend/resume cycle...

Linux 6.6 DRM-Misc-Next Carries VirtIO Sync Objects, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 08/03/2023 - 23:11
Another weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes were sent out today to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the Linux 6.6 merge window opening in a few weeks...

AMD Radeon PRO W7500/W7600 Deliver Great Open-Source Linux Performance At Launch

Phoronix - Thu, 08/03/2023 - 21:00
The just-announced AMD Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 are working quite well under a fully open-source and upstream graphics driver stack. AMD is making available a new Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver release for those on enterprise Linux distributions, but those living more on the leading-edge and preferring the open-source upstream Linux/Mesa driver experience, I've been testing these new RDNA3 professional offerings and the support is already in place and working out rather well. In this article are some initial tests of the Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 as well as showing how the performance of the new packaged driver compares to that of using all open-source and upstream GPU driver components.

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