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Kalray Posts Initial Patches For Bringing Up Linux On Their KV3-1 "Coolidge" DPU SoC

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 05:45
While back in 2018 when the C-SKY architecture was merged to the Linux kernel it was talked about possibly being the last new CPU arch/port to be mainlined given the growing success of RISC-V even back then, it looks like that upstream kernel developer belief might not hold true. France-based Kalray that focuses on high-performance, data-centric computing from cloud to edge posted their initial Linux kernel patches today for their "KVX" kernel port to get the kernel running on their MPPA3-80 "Coolidge" DPU SoC with the KV3-1 CPU architecture...

Fedora Decides After All To Allow Default Compiler Flag To Help Debugging/Profiling

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 03:22
The past several months saw much discussion over a proposal to add "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" as a default compiler flag to Fedora Linux that would improve profiling/debugging but with possible performance implications that can vary based on the application/workload. While just over one month ago FESCo rejected that change, they re-voted today and decided after all to allow this change to happen but to ensure that packages can easily opt-out if they find performance regressions. By Fedora 40 they will also re-visit the matter to determine if the benefits and performance costs are justified...

DragonFlyBSD 6.4 Released With Many Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 01:00
DragonFlyBSD 6.4 is now available as the newest version of this open-source BSD operating system forked long ago from FreeBSD...

BusyBox 1.36 Released With SeedRNG, Many Other Additions

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 00:40
It's been one year and a few days since BusyBox 1.35 was released while today it's been succeeded by BusyBox 1.36 for this software package that is common to embedded Linux environments with the lone executable providing a plethora of commands and functionality...

GIGABYTE Spins Off Its Server Business Unit As Giga Computing

Phoronix - Tue, 01/03/2023 - 23:26
GIGABYTE announced this morning they have spun off their server business unit and formed Giga Computing for their enterprise products moving forward...

Intel Announces 13th Gen Core Mobile CPUs, 35 & 65 Watt Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/03/2023 - 22:00
Intel is using the CES 2023 to announce their 13th Gen Intel Core mobile H/P/U-series processors, additional 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" desktop CPUs for the 35 and 65 Watt tiers, and new Intel Processor (formerly Celeron) and Core i3 N-series processors.

Fwupd 1.8.9 Released With Support For More Solidigm NVMe SSDs, More USB Docks

Phoronix - Tue, 01/03/2023 - 20:36
Fwupd 1.8.9 was just released as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

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