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AMD SEV-SNP Support Revised For Linux + Updated Hyper-V Isolation VM Code

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 03:30
AMD engineers and their partners continue work towards upstreaming Secure Encrypted Virtualization's Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for the mainline Linux kernel...

GCC 8 Through GCC 11 Stable Plus GCC 12 Compiler Benchmarks

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 00:00
For today's benchmarking is a look at how the GNU Compiler Collection has performed over the past few years going from the GCC 8 stable series introduced in 2018 through the recently released GCC 11.1 stable feature release plus also including the current early development snapshot of GCC 12.

VKD3D-Proton 2.4 Released With Better Performance, Sparse 3D Textures

Phoronix - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 23:17
VKD3D-Proton 2.4 is now available as the latest feature release for this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation that is part of Valve's Proton / Steam Play for running modern Windows games on Linux...

Libre-SOC Test ASIC Going To Fabrication, Using TSMC 180nm Process

Phoronix - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 22:30
Libre-SOC that started out as Libre RISC-V in aspiring to be an open-source software/hardware Vulkan accelerator but then renamed to Libre-SOC after changing over to the OpenPOWER architecture is now seeing test fabrication done using TSMC's 180nm process...

A Control Panel / UI For Intel's Linux Graphics Drivers Is Still Under Evaluation

Phoronix - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 21:20
At the end of last year we reported on the possibility of an Intel Command Center / graphics driver control panel for Linux but not set in stone. The latest to report on the matter of an Intel Linux graphics GUI solution is that it's still being evaluated by the company...

Linux Mint 20.2 Released With Cinnamon 5.0 Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 19:22
Linux Mint 20.2 "Uma" is now available as the latest update to this popular desktop Linux distribution built off Ubuntu LTS releases...

Real-Time Patches Updated For The Linux 5.13 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 18:14
Thomas Gleixner has announced the release of the real-time "RT" patches for the Linux 5.13, the first update since the patches were re-based early on back during the 5.12 release candidates...

Qt Creator 5.0 Beta Brings Experimental Support For Clangd, Building Code In Docker

Phoronix - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 17:55
In addition to The Qt Company being busy at work on the Qt 6.2 toolkit, they have also been busy preparing Qt Creator 5.0 as their Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment...

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