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Solidigm P44 Pro Linux Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 12/26/2022 - 23:45
A few months back we looked at the Solidigm P41 Plus NVMe SSD from this company that formed when SK hynix acquired Intel's NAND/SSD business. The P41 Plus was a budget-friendly consumer SSD with QLC memory while recently they launched the P44 Pro as a step-up and based on the SK hynix Platinum P41 design. I've been testing the Solidigm P44 Pro 1TB and 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs under Linux to great performance.

AMD Posts P-State EPP v9 Driver That Aims To Be Ready For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Mon, 12/26/2022 - 20:05
While the Linux 6.2 kernel merge window just wrapped up, AMD's P-State EPP driver was deemed not ready for making it this cycle. However, with AMD having now iterated it to a ninth revision, it's looking like this P-State "Energy Performance Preference" functionality over the existing P-State driver support will be ready for merging come Linux 6.3...

xf86-video-modesetting TearFree Page-Flipping Merged

Phoronix - Mon, 12/26/2022 - 19:19
The xf86-video-modesetting work covered a month ago over "TearFree" page flipping support has been merged to the X.Org Server for whenever the next release ends up happening...

Mold 1.8 Released With More Features For This High Performance Linker

Phoronix - Mon, 12/26/2022 - 19:05
It's been one year and a few days since the introduction of Mold 1.0 as a high performance linker alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD while debuting today is Mold 1.8 as the newest feature release...

Qualcomm USB Audio Offloading Patches Posted For The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 12/26/2022 - 18:35
Prior to the holiday weekend Qualcomm engineers posted a set of "request for comments" Linux kernel patches to implement USB audio offloading support for Qualcomm SoCs with a dedicated audio DSP...

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