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AMD Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Closing In On 4 Million Lines

Phoronix - Sun, 03/13/2022 - 19:46

For quite a while now the modern AMD Linux kernel graphics driver (AMDGPU/AMDKFD code) has been the single largest driver within the mainline Linux kernel code-base. It's been far larger than the other upstream kernel drivers given the complexities of modern GPUs and is only becoming even larger...

AMD Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Closing In On 4 Million Lines - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 03/13/2022 - 19:46

AMD Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Closing In On 4 Million Lines Phoronix

AMD P-State Tracer Tool To Be Included With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sun, 03/13/2022 - 18:56

One of the most prominent additions to the Linux 5.17 kernel is the introduction of the AMD P-State driver akin to Intel's P-State driver and aims to deliver better energy efficiency than AMD Zen 2 and newer processors currently on the ACPI CPUFreq driver. With Linux 5.18 an AMD P-State tracer tool is to be included with the kernel source tree for helping to analyze and tune this new driver...

GNOME Shell & Mutter 42.0 Tagged Following Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 03/13/2022 - 18:19

We are a little more than one week away from the official GNOME 42.0 desktop release and packages are beginning to prepare their "v42.0" releases...

How to Do a Fuzzy File Search in Linux - Tom's Hardware

Google News - Sun, 03/13/2022 - 18:00

How to Do a Fuzzy File Search in Linux Tom's Hardware

PostgreSQL Moves Ahead With Employing Zstd Compression

Phoronix - Sun, 03/13/2022 - 17:18

Back in February PostgreSQL began working on Zstd compression support and now with the latest code changes of the past week, this modern compression algorithm developed at Facebook is now able to play a greater role with this leading open-source database server...

Week in review: Linux bug gives root access to attackers, UPS devices' vulns, IoT security for OEMs - Help Net Security

Google News - Sun, 03/13/2022 - 17:00

Week in review: Linux bug gives root access to attackers, UPS devices' vulns, IoT security for OEMs Help Net Security

Use your Raspberry Pi as a data logger

opensource.com - Sun, 03/13/2022 - 15:00

Data logging can be done for various reasons. In a previous article, I wrote about how I monitor the electricity consumption of my household. The Raspberry Pi platform is a perfect match for such applications as it allows communication with many kinds of analog and digital sensors. This article shows how to log the CPU temperature of a Raspberry Pi and create a spreadsheet-based report on demand. Logging the CPU temperature won't require any additional boards or sensors.