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FFmpeg 6.0 Will Be Big With AV1 Hardware Decoding, Many Other Features

Phoronix - Tue, 02/07/2023 - 00:00
Well known multimedia developer and VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf presented at FOSDEM 2023 this weekend on the upcoming FFmpeg 6.0 release as well as dav1d v1.1...

The Current State Of Coreboot & Open-Source Firmware For AMD Hardware In 2023

Phoronix - Mon, 02/06/2023 - 21:00
Michał Żygowski of firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM 2023 this weekend in Brussels. The focus of Żygowski's presentation for the Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting was on the current client and server hardware state for AMD platforms with Coreboot / open-source firmware...

Linux Parallel CPU Bring-Up Shows Great Impact Bringing Up 1,920 Sapphire Rapids Cores

Phoronix - Mon, 02/06/2023 - 19:55
After the prior kernel patches had stalled in their review process, last week work was revived on x86_64 parallel CPU bring-up for the Linux kernel to help in booting the kernel faster on larger core count desktops and servers. The results have been promising and over the past few days more test results have flowed in along with other positive commentary that will hopefully this time lead to the work ultimately getting upstreamed...

A Non-GNU Linux Distribution Built With LLVM & BSD Software Aims For Alpha Next Month

Phoronix - Mon, 02/06/2023 - 19:25
In development now for nearly two years is Chimera Linux as a "non-GNU" Linux distribution built with the LLVM Clang compiler, leveraging musl libc, and commonly relying on BSD user-space software components. After a lot of work on bringing up Chimera Linux as well as getting a Wayland-based deskttop going, the project is aiming for its alpha release within the next month...

Linux 6.3 To Support The IT87952E Found With Some Newer Desktop Motherboards

Phoronix - Mon, 02/06/2023 - 19:06
The Linux 6.3 kernel's IT87 driver is preparing support for the IT87952E super I/O controller that is used by some newer desktop motherboards and will now be able to enjoy hardware monitoring "HWMON" support...

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