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Updated AMDGPU Firmware Published To Deal With A Possible VCN Hang

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 02:39
In addition to the AMD Zen 1/2/3 updated CPU microcode and long-awaited NVIDIA Ampere GPU signed firmware being merged today into linux-firmware.git, new AMD graphics firmware was also merged this morning for dealing with a hang with the VCN block under certain situations...

Arch-Based EndeavourOS "Apollo" Released

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 00:06
For those looking for an easy-to-use flavor of Arch Linux, EndeavourOS continues in this area of being a robust desktop-minded Linux distribution powered by Arch. Out today is EndeavourOS "Apollo" as its newest ISO of this rolling-release distribution...

NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally Allow Accelerated Open-Source Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/11/2022 - 19:35
Days after new open-source kernel driver code appeared in a Tegra code drop, NVIDIA happens today to have published signed firmware images for their RTX 30 "Ampere" graphics processors for finally allowing open-source driver support to proceed for these latest-generation GPUs...

AMD P-State vs. ACPI CPUFreq Testing With Ryzen Laptops On Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Mon, 04/11/2022 - 18:19
One of the most prominent features of Linux 5.17 for end-users was the introduction of the AMD P-State driver that is designed to deliver better energy efficiency than the generic ACPI CPUFreq frequency scaling driver relied on by AMD Ryzen processors up to this point. For those wondering how the performance and efficiency currently compare for Ryzen laptops, here are some benchmarks recently carried out on Linux 5.17 for both drivers and testing both the Schedutil and Performance governors.

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