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Optimized memchr() Implementation For The Linux Kernel Up To ~4x Faster

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 01:58
A set of proposed patches promise to make the Linux kernel's memchr() implementation faster for locating a character within a block of memory. In tests carried out by the developer, the new implementation can be nearly four times faster on large searches...

Intel's Open-Source Compute Runtime Appears To Be Ready For DG2/Alchemist dGPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 07/10/2022 - 18:19
Intel's open-source Compute Runtime for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on their graphics hardware appears to be in roughly good shape now for DG2/Alchemist based on external/independent monitoring of the effort...

Linux To Drop "nordrand" Option - Users Should Instead Switch To "random.trust_cpu"

Phoronix - Sun, 07/10/2022 - 17:55
The Linux kernel has long honored the "nordrand" kernel parameter to disable kernel use of the Intel RDRAND and RDSEED instructions if not trusting them -- either out of security concerns that they could be compromised by the vendor or running into hardware/firmware issues around RdRand usage. But the Linux kernel is preparing to drop that kernel parameter with users encouraged to use the more generic "random.trust_cpu" parameter...

WayVNC 0.5 VNC Server For wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors Released

Phoronix - Sun, 07/10/2022 - 17:41
WayVNC 0.5 was released on Saturday as a feature update to this VNC server for Wayland compositors leveraging the WLROOTS library...

Libreboot 20220710 Released As Coreboot Downstream Focused On Boot Firmware Freedom

Phoronix - Sun, 07/10/2022 - 17:27
Leah Rowe has announced the release of Libreboot 20220710, the downstream of Coreboot that takes a firm approach to ensure boot firmware freedom with avoiding proprietary blobs even when it means reduced hardware coverage/support. As such with avoiding the likes of the Intel FSP, the supported list of motherboards is quite limited...

KDE Developers Already Making Great Strides On Plasma 5.26

Phoronix - Sun, 07/10/2022 - 17:13
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting KDE changes this week, which includes building up of more work targeting Plasma 5.26 this autumn as well as KDE application enhancements and more...

Debian 11.4 Released With Dozens Of Bug & Security Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 07/10/2022 - 03:20
Debian 11.4 is out as the fourth stable release update to "Bullseye" of this popular community-based Linux distribution...

An Open-Source Linux DRM Graphics Driver For The Atari Falcon

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 22:00
In addition to the OpenChrome DRM/KMS driver hoping to be finally mainlined in 2022 for supporting aging VIA graphics hardware from the long-ago days of their x86 chipsets, separately there is a DRM/KMS kernel driver in the works for something even older... A Linux DRM graphics driver for the Atari Falcon from the early 90's...

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