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Intel ISPC 1.17 Compiler Released With Xe HPG, PS5 & AMD Zen Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 21:08
Intel ended out the week with a huge update to ISPC, the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler. ISPC is Intel's LLVM-based compiler focused on its C variant with extensions for single program, multiple data (SPMD) programming. Interestingly with this release is the introduction of AMD Zen 1/2/3 targeting and even the PlayStation 5 while also adding support for forthcoming Intel Arc "Alchemist" (Xe HPG) hardware...

Initial Sound Open Firmware Support For AMD Hardware Comes With Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 19:17
The sound subsystem updates have been merged into the Linux 5.17 kernel with a few notable hardware driver additions this cycle...

libvirt 8.0 Virtualization API Released

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 18:55
Libvirt 8.0 has been released for this open-source Virtualization API and associated daemon/tools for managing KVM, Xen, and other hypervisors...

PCI Changes For Linux 5.17 Bring Intel Raptor Lake IDs, Apple PCIe Clock Gating

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 18:20
The PCI subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel have been submitted to Linus...

KDE Caps Off Plasma 5.24 Beta Week With More Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 18:05
In addition to shipping Plasma 5.24 beta this week, KDE developers remained busy working on Plasma 5.24 as well as other KDE desktop components...

Why use a Raspberry Pi to power your business

opensource.com - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 16:00

With the pandemic changing the way we're working, job decentralization is becoming an important challenge for all companies.


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Wine 7.0-rc6 Released With Another 47 Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 05:31
Wine 7.0 is inching towards release but for this week is the seventh weekly release candidate...

FFmpeg 5.0 Released For This Popular, Open-Source Multimedia Library

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 04:53
FFmpeg 5.0 is out today as a shiny feature update to this widely-used open-source audio/video handling suite...

Open-Source Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers Add Double Buffer Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 01/15/2022 - 03:03
Mesa's V3D and V3DV drivers providing open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver support, respectively, for newer Broadcom VideoCore hardware now has a double buffer mode implemented. This is a win for numerous workloads for these drivers most notably used by modern Raspberry Pi single board computers...

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