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Intel Posts Updated "Software Defined Silicon" Driver To Activate Licensed Hardware Features

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 21:07
Back in September we were first to report on Intel developing "Software Defined Silicon" support for being able to activate extra licensed hardware features not otherwise exposed. Intel hasn't talked about the controversial feature in terms of product plans but this weekend they posted a new revision of this Intel "SDSi" Linux driver...

New x86/x86_64 KVM Patches Would Help Reduce Excess TLB Flushing

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 19:14
A set of more than two dozen patches by Google engineer Sean Christopherson overhauls KVM's x86/x86_64 TDP MMU zapping and flushing code...

LLVM Is Still Working On Relicensing, Needs Help Locating Some Past Contributors

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 18:30
For years LLVM has been working on a massive relicensing of its code-base but that effort is still ongoing as they are still trying to track down some past contributors to collect their sign-offs on the change...

Gluster 10 Scalable Network File-System Delivers Greater Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 18:10
Gluster 10 was released this past week as the open-source scalable/distributed network file-system led by Red Hat...

4 open source ways to create holiday greetings

opensource.com - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 16:00

The holiday season is upon us once again, and this year I decided to celebrate in an open source way. Like a particular famous holiday busybody, I have a long list (and I do intend to check it twice) of holiday tasks: create a greeting card (with addressed envelopers) to send to family and friends, make a photo montage or video to a suitably festive song, and decorate my virtual office. There are plenty of open source applications and resources making my job easier. Here's what I use.


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More RadeonSI Optimizations Land In Mesa 22.0

Phoronix - Sun, 11/21/2021 - 01:09
Well known AMD OpenGL open-source driver developer Marek Olšák managed to land yet more performance optimizations this week into Mesa 22.0...

Wine 7.0 Code Freeze To Begin In Early December

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 20:04
As expected when writing about Wine 6.22 yesterday that the annual stable release dance was likely upon us, plans were laid out today for that Wine 7.0 release...

KDE Plasma 5.24 Adds An Overview Effect Inspired By GNOME's Activities Overview

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 19:55
Even with the holidays ahead the KDE developers remain very busy improving their desktop software stack for Plasma 5.24 and other forthcoming component releases...

Picolibc 1.7.4 Brings Improved Meson Support, Restructured Math Code

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 18:55
Picolibc as the open-source C library optimized for small embedded systems with limited RAM capacities is out with a new update...

Linux Kernel Patches Updated for x86/x86_64 SLS Mitigation

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 18:34
With GCC 12 having added a new option to enable Straight Line Speculation "SLS" mitigation for x86/x86_64 CPUs, Linux kernel developers are preparing to enable this new compiler feature for further reducing undesirable speculation exposure...

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