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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/08/2023 - 03:00
Following last week's review of the brand new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and then moving on to looking at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D gaming performance, today's Linux hardware coverage on Phoronix is looking at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux performance in other system/CPU workloads aside from gaming.

Initial Rust DRM Abstractions, AGX Apple DRM Driver Posted For Review

Phoronix - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 23:45
After being in development for several months, Asahi Lina with the Asahi Linux project has posted the initial Rust Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem abstractions for review as well as a preview of the experimental state of the AGX DRM driver providing the open-source kernel graphics driver support for Apple M1/M2 hardware...

Intel Preparing IAA Crypto Compression Driver - Kernel Crypto API Use For Accelerators

Phoronix - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 21:24
In addition to Intel's Linux patches in recent days working on broad performance optimizations that can benefit all hardware there has also been some Intel-specific kernel improvements being worked on like the Sapphire Rapids C0.2 idle state support that was published for review on Monday. Also coming out from the covers on Monday was a new patch series for the "iaa_crypto" driver to improve the Linux support for Intel's In-Memory..

GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 20:00
The GNOME Shell and Mutter release candidates ahead of this month's GNOME 44 desktop update are now available for testing...

AMD's Suballocator Helper Gets Ready To Help Intel's New Xe Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 19:46
With the Linux 6.3-rc1 kernel now out and that closing the Linux 6.3 merge window, the open-source Linux graphics driver developers are turning their attention to feature work they want to accomplish for Linux 6.4 this summer. Already the first drm-misc-next pull request has been submitted to DRM-Next with some of those early changes that will target the v6.4 kernel...

Coreboot Adds Support For An ASRock Sandy/Ivy Bridge Era Mini ITX Board

Phoronix - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 19:24
For those that happen to have an ASRock B75M-ITX in their collection or have just been looking for an old Intel Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge era system that can run the open-source Coreboot firmware, this mini-ITX desktop motherboard can run upstream Coreboot with the latest changes made this week...

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