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OpenRISC Enables PCI Support With Linux 6.0

Phoronix - Sat, 08/06/2022 - 12:00
While OpenRISC has been around a decade longer than RISC-V and its original support in the Linux kernel dates back to the v3.1 days, on the hardware side OpenRISC hasn't enjoyed nearly as much success as RISC-V and its kernel support not advancing nearly as rapidly. Now with Linux 6.0, OpenRISC is finally exposing PCI bus support...

DreamWorks Animation To Open-Source MoonRay Renderer

Phoronix - Sat, 08/06/2022 - 02:04
DreamWorks Animation announced today that they intend to release their MoonRay production renderer as open-source softwate later in 2022. DreamWorks' MoonRay renderer has been used for films such as How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Bad Guys, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, and other animated films...

Rust For Linux Kernel v9 Patches Trim Things Down Greatly For Easier Upstreaming

Phoronix - Sat, 08/06/2022 - 01:53
Earlier this week saw the Rust for Linux v8 patches posted that introduced a number of new abstractions and expanding the Rust programming language integration to more areas of the kernel. Those patches amounted to 43.6k lines of new code while "Rust for Linux v9" was posted today and comes in at just 12.5k lines of new code...

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U: ACPI Platform Profile Low-Power vs. Balanced vs. Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 08/06/2022 - 00:22
As with many new Intel/AMD laptops these days, the recently launched Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen3 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U "Rembrandt" SoC boasts ACPI Platform Profile support that is exposed under Linux for switching between low-power, balanced (default), and performance modes. For those curious about this ACPI Platform Profile impact, here are some benchmarks from this 6850U laptop under Ubuntu Linux and its impact on power and thermal efficiency too.

GNU Binutils 2.39 Released - ELF Linker Now Warns If A Stack Is Made Executable

Phoronix - Fri, 08/05/2022 - 23:16
Following the release of GNU Glibc 2.36 earlier this week, GNU Binutils 2.39 released today for this common set of binary utilities on open-source systems...

The Lost Opportunity - Electronics Weekly

Google News - Fri, 08/05/2022 - 21:42
The Lost Opportunity  Electronics Weekly

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