Open-source News

Intel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 08/26/2022 - 03:17
Intel's GPUs from the consumer desktop Arc Graphics hardware to the Intel Data Center Flex GPU Series "Arctic Sound M" and forthcoming Xe HPC Ponte Vecchio are built around fully open-source drivers. A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux. Here is some initial commentary with running the Intel Arc Graphics A380 on Linux!

Readfile System Call Revised For Efficiently Reading Small Files

Phoronix - Fri, 08/26/2022 - 00:30
Brought up back in 2020 was the readfile system call for efficiently reading small files with the intention of it being simple for reading small files such as those via sysfs, procfs, and similar file-systems. The readfile patches were re-based yesterday against the current Linux 6.0 state, leaving hope that the new system call might finally be sent in for the next kernel cycle...

FreeBSD 14.0 Planned For Release Next July

Phoronix - Thu, 08/25/2022 - 23:42
The FreeBSD release engineering team has published their initial release plans for FreeBSD 14.0 as well as follow-on FreeBSD 13.2 and 12.4 releases for the current stable series of this BSD operating system...

Linux 6.1 Will Make It A Bit Easier To Help Spot Faulty CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 08/25/2022 - 21:12
While mostly of benefit to server administrators with large fleets of hardware, Linux 6.1 aims to make it easier to help spot problematic CPUs/cores by reporting the likely socket and core when a segmentation fault occurs, which can help in spotting any trends if routinely finding the same CPU/core is causing problems...

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