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AMD Sends Out Latest SFH Linux Driver Patches

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 20:49
It was in January that AMD finally published an open-source Linux driver for their Sensor Fusion Hub used by AMD Ryzen laptops for various sensor functionality. As we approach the end of the year this driver still hasn't been mainlined yet but a new revision was sent out on Friday...

RADV ACO Lands NGG Geometry Shader Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 18:27
Adding to the growing list of Mesa 20.3 features is now RADV ACO supporting NGG GS. Or rather, the Radeon Vulkan driver with the ACO back-end now supports geometry shaders with Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) as found on newer AMD GPUs...

Wine-Staging 5.19 Adds Windows.Networking.Connectivity

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 15:48
Following yesterday's release of Wine 5.19, the developers responsible for the Wine-Staging have issued their corresponding update for this codebase that adds 600+ patches currently undergoing testing...

5 qualities of great open source developer advocates

opensource.com - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 15:00

The developer relations job category is less than 10 years old, and the developer advocate role is even newer. In essence, developer advocates represent the voice of the user—in this case, that's usually the developer—internally to the company and the voice of the company externally to the community.


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Intel's Latest Compute Code Is Enabling OpenCL 3.0 For All Hardware Since Broadwell

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 12:00
Intel's next Compute Runtime release is going to be exciting as OpenCL 3.0 will be enabled for all graphics hardware found going back to Broadwell CPUs...

Wine 5.19 Released With A Variety Of Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 05:12
Wine 5.19 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

EXT4 "Fast Commits" Coming For Big Performance Boost In Ordered Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 02:51
After being in development for more than one year, it looks like with Linux 5.10 there will be EXT4 fast commit support...

The Current Intel Coffee Lake Mitigation Performance Impact With Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Sat, 10/10/2020 - 02:07
Of the many new features in Linux 5.9 with its debut set for this weekend, one of the performance-related changes is Intel FSGSBASE support finally being mainlined. A half-decade after the Linux patches first appeared for this feature present in Intel CPUs going back to Ivy Bridge, the mainline kernel is now patched for this feature that can help out I/O and other context switching heavy workloads. Given many of the same workloads were negatively impacted by the CPU security mitigations of recent years, here is a look at the current mitigated vs. unmitigated performance difference on the Linux 5.9 kernel with an Intel Core i9 9900K CPU for reference on how the mitigation impact is on recent versions of the Linux kernel.

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