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Following Retbleed, The Combined CPU Security Mitigation Impact For AMD Zen 2 / Ryzen 9 3950X

Phoronix - Tue, 09/06/2022 - 23:00
Following the July disclosure of the Retbleed CPU security vulnerability affecting older processors and an AMD change made in August, here is a fresh look at the performance impact of the Retbleed mitigations on Linux, including if opting for the IBPB-based Retbleed mitigation, and the accumulated CPU security mitigation impact for Zen 2 with the flagship Ryzen 9 3950X processor.

Richard Stallman Announces GNU C Language Reference Manual

Phoronix - Tue, 09/06/2022 - 21:55
GNU founder Richard Stallman has recently been working on crafting a GNU C Language introduction and reference manual...

LLVM 15.0 Released With Security Features, Experimental DirectX Back-End, New AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 09/06/2022 - 18:29
LLVM 15 is now ready to roll as a big half-year update to this open-source compiler stack. LLVM 15.0, Clang 15.0, and other sub-projects have a lot to show for their summer 2022 accomplishments...

More DRM-Misc-Next Driver Changes Queue Up For Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Tue, 09/06/2022 - 17:55
DRM-Misc manager Maarten Lankhorst with Intel's open-source graphics engineering team has submitted the latest weekly pull of new feature code to queue in DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 6.1 merge window...

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