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AMD Announces Automotive-Grade Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 22:00
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week in Las Vegas, AMD announced today the Versal AI Edge XA Adaptive SoC and the Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series processor. The Ryzen Embedded V2000A is an x86 automotive-qualified processor family for next-generation automotive digital cockpits. Given the automotive/embedded focus, Linux plays a big role with the forthcoming hardware and its adoption by multiple automotive companies...

Linux 6.8 To Drop Old ARM11 MPCore CPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 19:55
ARM11 MPCore support for the early ARMv6 multi-processor (SMP) support is set to be retired with the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle...

Ubuntu Looking At Discontinuing Its Source ISOs

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 19:36
Ubuntu's install media (ISO) generation recently broke the assembly of source ISOs. These are the ISOs containing all of the source code packages to Ubuntu Linux with the original motivation of helping GPL license compliance and ensuring the code is easily accessible. But the usefulness in practice is limited and now instead Ubuntu developers are considering the discontinuing of source ISOs...

The Open-Source ATI R300 Graphics Driver Is Still Being Improved Upon In 2024

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 19:18
It's been over twenty years since the ATI Radeon R300 series was introduced but thanks to the open-source Mesa Gallium3D OpenGL driver, there continues to be new improvements made to this driver for these aging Radeon graphics cards on Linux. A few hundred lines of code were merged today for further enhancing the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver in 2024...

Newlib 4.4 Released With Long Double Support On i386 / AArch64 / x86_64 & Xtensa Port

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 19:05
For those making use of the Newlib C standard library for embedded systems, Red Hat kicked off the new year by releasing Newlib 4.4...

AMD Proposes An FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 18:53
AMD engineers are proposing an FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface to overcome current limitations of the Linux kernel's FPGA manager subsystem...

Glibc 2.39 Should Be Out On 1 February & Might Drop Itanium IA64 Linux Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 06:12
A release plan has been drafted for the upcoming GNU C Library "glibc" 2.39 release as well as some possible last minute changes...

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