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AMD ROCm 4.3.1 Released With RHEL 8.4 + SLES 15 SP3 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 08/28/2021 - 12:00
ROCm 4.3 released at the start of August with support for HMM memory allocations, support for indirect function calls and C++ virtual functions with the ROCm compiler, improved data center tool integration, better rocBLAS performance, and a range of other improvements. In approaching the end of August, ROCm 4.3.1 is now available...

Wine 6.16 Released With Better HiDPI Theming, Initial HID-Based Joystick Backend

Phoronix - Sat, 08/28/2021 - 04:14
Wine 6.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this widely-used software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other systems...

Linux Could Use A New Maintainer For Its CD-ROM Code

Phoronix - Sat, 08/28/2021 - 01:53
Current Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe started out in the late 90's taking over maintainership of the Linux kernel's CD-ROM driver code. However, as he's busy these days with IO_uring and other prominent I/O activities for Linux, he's hoping someone interested and capable would want to take over the Linux kernel's CD-ROM code...

Linux 5.14 SSD Benchmarks With Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS

Phoronix - Fri, 08/27/2021 - 21:15
A number of Phoronix readers have been asking about some fresh file-system comparisons on recent kernels. With not having the time to conduct the usual kernel version vs. file-system comparison, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS file-system benchmarks on a speedy WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe solid-state drive...

AVX2-Optimized SM4 Cipher Implementation Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Fri, 08/27/2021 - 21:10
The Linux kernel has already sported SM4 cipher algorithm implementation optimized for AES-NI and AVX while now an Alibaba engineer has contributed an AVX2 optimized variant for even greater performance...

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