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Intel PECI Submitted As Part Of Char/Misc Changes For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Tue, 03/29/2022 - 01:44
After being years in development, the Intel PECI subsystem is landing for the Linux 5.18 kernel...

Intel Launches The Core i9 12900KS At Up To 5.5GHz Alder Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 21:23
Intel today announced the Core i9 12900KS as "the world's fastest desktop processor" with a 5.5GHz maximum turbo frequency...

Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Ray-Tracing Gets A Bit Further Along For Doom Eternal

Phoronix - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 20:29
While last year saw initial Radeon Vulkan ray-tracing merged into Mesa's "RADV" driver, the work remains experimental but bit by bit is becoming more mature and capable...

Linux 5.18 Power Management Brings Improvements For Both Intel & AMD

Phoronix - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 18:53
Last week the power management changes landed for the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel with a number of changes in tow, including notable items for both AMD and Intel processors...

Improved Arch Linux Installer Experience Being Readied With Archinstall 2.4-RC1

Phoronix - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 18:07
Debuting on the Arch Linux monthly ISOs a year ago was Archinstall as a way to carry out quick and easy installations of this popular Linux distribution. Over the past year Archinstall has matured into increasingly robust shape for quickly installing Arch Linux...

LLVM Clang Adds "-march=native" Support For The Apple M1

Phoronix - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 18:00
A subtle but notable change worth mentioning last week for LLVM Clang 15.0 is "-march=native" now working for this compiler when running on Apple M1 SoCs...

Linux 5.18 KVM Prepares For Intel IPI Virtualization, Larger AMD VMs

Phoronix - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 17:48
The initial batch of KVM virtualization changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...

Linux 5.18 Hardens The Kernel For 64-bit Arm With Shadow Call Stack Support

Phoronix - Mon, 03/28/2022 - 17:29
In addition to supporting the Tesla FSD chip, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and other new Arm SoCs in Linux 5.18, this kernel will also be more secure for 64-bit Arm with adding Shadow Call Stack support...

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