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LLVM Adds An HTTP Server For Debuginfod

Phoronix - Tue, 07/12/2022 - 01:30
Merged prior to the weekend into LLVM 15 was a basic web server implementation...

GCC Rust Approved By Steering Committee, Likely To Land For GCC 13

Phoronix - Tue, 07/12/2022 - 00:00
The GCC Steering Committee has approved of the GCC Rust front-end providing Rust programming language support by the GNU Compiler Collection. This Rust front-end will likely be merged ahead of the GCC 13 release next year...

Linux 5.19 Looking Real Good On The HP Dev One, XanMod + Liquorix Also Tested

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 21:00
With the very popular HP Dev One that is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO SoC and running Pop!_OS, a number of Phoronix readers inquired about seeing benchmarks of some of the alternative kernel flavors on the device. So here is a look at the stock Linux 5.17 kernel up against the Linux 5.18 and 5.19 (Git) kernels and then Liquorix and XanMod tossed in as alternative flavors running on the Pop!_OS 22.04 installation.

Fwupd 1.8.2 Released - Supports More Corsair, PixArt, SteelSeries, System76 Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 20:35
LVFS/fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes at Red Hat has released Fwupd 1.8.2 as the newest version of this open-source solution for handling firmware updates under Linux and other platforms...

Many Old X.Org Components Saw New Releases This Weekend

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 18:23
While no new X.Org "katamari" releases are planned for a collection of all the X.Org component updates combined, this weekend longtime X.Org contributor Alan Coopersmith of Oracle issued many new updates to various old, seldom-maintained X.Org projects...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Performance Query Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 17:45
One of the newest extensions now supported by the RADV Vulkan driver is VK_KHR_performance_query, which can be used by RenderDoc and other utilities...

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