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Ampere Adds "Ampere1" CPU Core Support To LLVM

Phoronix - Wed, 05/04/2022 - 02:00
Merged today into mainline LLVM 15.0 for the Clang compiler is Ampere Computing's support for "Ampere1", their next-generation server processor featuring their in-house "Ampere Cores" core design...

AMD Working to Create A New Yocto Linux Platform For Xilinx SoCs

Phoronix - Tue, 05/03/2022 - 19:24
Following AMD completing its Xilinx acquisition back in February, AMD is now preparing to ramp up their investment into embedded Linux. AMD is hiring for the "creation and maintenance" of a Yocto-based Embedded Linux platform for running on Xilinx SoCs...

A Decade Later, Linux To Better Handle Daisy Chaining Thunderbolt Displays On Apple Hardware

Phoronix - Tue, 05/03/2022 - 18:07
Intel's Thunderbolt "Light Ridge" controller was introduced all the way back in 2010 for Apple Macs and the updated Intel Thunderbolt 2 "Falcon Ridge" controller is from 2013. Now in 2022 under Linux the Thunderbolt driver will be better matching the Apple macOS behavior when daisy chaining multiple Thunderbolt displays...

Better Support For The Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II With Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Tue, 05/03/2022 - 17:47
The Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II is a standalone keyboard that mimics the traditional ThinkPad notebook's keyboard that comes complete with an integrated TrackPoint. With the Linux 5.19 kernel will be better support for this standalone ThinkPad keyboard...

Mozilla Firefox 100 Now Available With Various Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 05/03/2022 - 17:28
Mozilla has joined Google Chrome in the three digit version world with Firefox 100 being available this morning...

Linux Developers Discuss Improvements To Memory Tiering

Phoronix - Tue, 05/03/2022 - 17:22
Already within the Linux kernel there is initial support for tiered memory servers for dealing with platforms like those with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for being able to promote/demote pages to slower classes of memory when the speedy system RAM is under pressure. But with more tiered memory servers coming about especially with HBM classes of memory, Google and other vendors are discussing better handling of Linux's tiered memory interface...

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