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More Intel Alder Lake Enablement Landing For Coreboot

Phoronix - Sun, 06/06/2021 - 19:09
In addition to getting Intel's Alder Lake hybrid processors ready for the Linux kernel and other areas of the operating system stack, Intel's open-source engineers have continued their trend in recent weeks of upstreaming more Alder Lake work into Coreboot...

GNOME's Need To Broaden Its Audience For Greater Impact & Funding

Phoronix - Sun, 06/06/2021 - 18:14
Robert McQueen, the President of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, wrote a post this week ultimately about the GNOME project's need to broaden its focus in order to attract more new users and ultimately to be able to raise funds from new organizations outside of their traditional reach. If they aren't able to find new funding sources, they may need to scale back in some of their efforts but still have a sufficient safety net...

Linux Disables Intel's New ENQCMD Feature Since Kernel Code "Broken Beyond Repair"

Phoronix - Sun, 06/06/2021 - 17:55
For two years now we have seen various open-source patches around ENQCMD instructions for the code compilers and the Linux kernel. This Enqueue Stores support is part of Intel's Data Streaming Accelerator coming with Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids". But even with Sapphire Rapids not launching until later this year, the already merged Linux kernel code is force-disabling the ENQCMD instructions support as the current kernel support is deemed "broken beyond repair" and will need to be reworked...

5 handy guides to open source for teachers

opensource.com - Sun, 06/06/2021 - 15:00

For some teachers, summer is here and thus a long (hopefully, relaxing) break. All the teachers I know are proud lifelong learners, though, and at the end of the summer break there's a new school year awaiting. To help you get the most out of your summer, but also satiate the real need to plan for the coming school year, we've collected some of our favorite concise guides to help you plan.


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Crocus Gallium3D Nears Mainline Mesa For Gallium3D i965 Through Haswell Graphics

Phoronix - Sun, 06/06/2021 - 08:24
A few months ago you may recall word of Crocus as a new Mesa Gallium3D driver for supporting Intel Gen7 Haswell graphics and older back through the i965 class hardware. That Gallium3D driver for the aging class of Intel graphics is nearing mainline Mesa with the work-in-progress merge request now pending as of this week...

GNU Poke 1.3 Released For Poking At Binaries, Understanding Binary Data

Phoronix - Sun, 06/06/2021 - 00:26
GNU Poke debuted earlier this year as a new GNU project providing an interactive editor and integrated, interactive programming language for dealing with binary data. Poke makes it easier to analyze binary data and their data structures as well as manipulating said binary data...

NVMeTCP Offload Bits Coming For Linux 5.14 To Lower CPU Utilization, Better Latency

Phoronix - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 21:07
Adding to other networking changes queuing up for the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle, NVMeTCP Offload has begun landing into "net-next" ahead of this next kernel merge window...

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