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Zhaoxin Tries Again To Upstream Their "LuJiaZui" CPU Support Within GCC

Phoronix - Sun, 05/22/2022 - 16:36
Back in 2019 Chinese CPU company Zhaoxin introduced "LuJiaZui" as their 16nm x86 CPU design for use from laptops up through servers. LuJiaZui is much improved from their earlier chips though still well behind AMD and Intel performance. Proper GCC compiler support for LuJiaZui was sent out again this week after their previous upstreaming attempt hadn't made it into GCC 12 due to being late in the cycle...

RISC-V With Linux 5.19 Preps "COMPAT" Mode For 32-bit Apps On 64-bit Kernels & More

Phoronix - Sun, 05/22/2022 - 03:49
With Linux 5.18 expected to be released as stable tomorrow and that opening up the Linux 5.19 merge window, feature work aimed for this next kernel should be largely wrapped up. Within the RISC-V architecture's "for-next" branch is several interesting additions...

Systemd 251 Released With systemd-sysupdate Introduced, Many Other Additions

Phoronix - Sat, 05/21/2022 - 23:51
Systemd 251 is officially out this Saturday as the first feature update to this Linux init system for 2022...

Ubuntu 22.10 Switching To PipeWire For Linux Audio Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 05/21/2022 - 18:30
An early change made this week to Ubuntu 22.10 in its early development state is replacing the PulseAudio sound server with PipeWire...

An Open-Source Firmware Virtual Beer Event Is Happening Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 05/21/2022 - 18:00
The folks from the Polish open-source firmware consulting firmware 3mdeb are hosting another "OSF vPub" where they discuss open-source firmware efforts over beers in this currently-virtual event...

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