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Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 "Genio 350" Support In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 23:24
On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this next kernel version. With the Mediatek DRM driver for Linux 6.15 it's set to add MT8365 SoC support, perhaps better known as the Genio 350...

GCC 15 Deprecates Support For The ESA/390 Architecture

Phoronix - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 22:15
In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...

Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang

Phoronix - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 22:03
Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...

Glibc's Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 21:00
The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations...

Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler

Phoronix - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 19:05
Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...

Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS

Phoronix - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 18:40
While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing...

IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 18:22
IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released on Thursday with new enhancements for these tests and other tools incorporated into the project...

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