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Mesa 23.1.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes For RADV, Zink, Intel ANV

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 06:40
For those that prefer waiting to the first point release before shifting to a new Mesa3D quarterly feature release, Mesa 23.1.1 is out today so you can now begin upgrading to this latest set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used on Linux systems and elsewhere...

PostgreSQL 16 Reaches Beta With Performance Improvements - Including SIMD for x86 & ARM

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 01:01
PostgreSQL 16 is up to its first beta milestone today with new performance optimizations and continued security enhancements...

IBM Baking Some Nice Optimizations To EXT4's Multi-Block Allocator

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 22:00
IBM engineers have been working through some multi-block allocator improvements for the EXT4 file-system driver. In particular, they aim to address some shortcomings that were discovered when running various tests on IBM POWER hardware with a 64k block size...

AI Processing Unit "APU" Driver For Linux DRM Is Among The Latest Accelerator Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 21:08
Sent out last week by Alexandre Bailon with Bay Libre is the AI Processing Unit "APU" Direct Rendering Manager driver to interface between CPUs and AI Processing Units. The hope is this APU driver could be re-used by various hardware drivers while the initial focus is on bringing up the AI capabilities of the MediaTek MT8183 SoC...

Intel Engineers Revise Key Locker Implementation For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 20:03
Going back to 2020 has been work by Intel's open-source engineers on implementing Key Locker support for Linux. Intel Key Locker allows for encrypting/decrypting data with an AES key without having access to the raw/actual key. AES keys are converted into handles with Intel Key Locker that can then be used for carrying out encryption/decryption on that system until revoked or system state changes. Intel engineers on Wednesday posted their seventh iteration of the patches for supporting Key Locker on Linux...

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