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A Fresh Look At The Asahi Linux Performance On Apple's M2

Phoronix - Tue, 12/06/2022 - 01:00
Back during the summer once Asahi Linux introduced initial Apple M2 SoC support I ran many Apple M2 Linux benchmarks including a look at how the M2 competes with AMD and Intel laptop processors. With months having passed since then and the Apple M1/M2 Linux support has continued to advance upstream as well as more work hitting the Asahi Linux tree, here is a fresh look at where the performance of the M2 is currently at compared to that initial at-launch support.

Intel IGC 1.0.12504.5 Released As Big Graphics Compiler Update - MTL, Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Mon, 12/05/2022 - 22:23
Released this morning is Intel IGC 1.0.12504.5 for Linux and Windows systems as the newest version of the open-source Intel Graphics Compiler. As the first tagged update in nearly two months, IGC 1.0.12504.5 is a big one...

PoCL 3.1 Released - Improved SPIR-V For CPU & CUDA Drivers, WIP Vulkan Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 12/05/2022 - 21:19
PoCL 3.1 is out today as the newest feature update to the "Portable Computing Language" that is effectively a portable OpenCL implementation that originally began focused on being a CPU-based implementation of OpenCL and has grown to support additional back-end drivers via LLVM for targeting NVIDIA CUDA, an experimental Vulkan driver, and other accelerator targets...

USB4 Wake-On-Connect / Wake-On-Disconnect Ready For Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Mon, 12/05/2022 - 20:02
Last month I wrote about Intel having worked on USB4 wake-on-connect and wake-on-disconnect handling for the Linux kernel and those patches are indeed primed to be introduced next week with the Linux 6.2 merge window...

Floppy Driver Update Ready For Linux 6.2 - Still Being Maintained In 2023

Phoronix - Mon, 12/05/2022 - 19:34
As we get ready to enter 2023, the Linux kernel's floppy disk driver is still being maintained...

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