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Intel P-State Driver Begins Preparing For Hybrid Processors (Alder Lake)

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 01:27
Intel's Linux preparations for Alder Lake -- and more broadly the concept of hybrid x86_64 CPUs with a mix of large Core and small Atom cores -- continues with the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver seeing new work to prepare for Intel's hybrid era...

Red Hat Scores A Huge DM Optimization For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 00:14
Red Hat engineers have scored an impressive performance optimization to the DeviceMapper (DM) code that is now queued up for merging with the Linux 5.14 cycle...

Intel AMX Support Continues Being Prepped For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 19:07
Intel engineers have been publishing open-source/Linux enablement patches around Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for nearly one year now. While Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" with AMX support is expected around the end of this year, one of the key pieces yet to land is the Linux kernel support...

Intel Open-Source Stack Enables oneAPI Level Zero For Rocket Lake, Alder Lake S

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 18:07
A bit late to the game on the Rocket Lake side but ahead as usual when it comes to Alder Lake S, Intel's engineers maintaining the open-source Compute Runtime for Linux systems have now flipped on the Level Zero support...

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Announced With Greater Power Capability For $20

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 17:52
Raspberry Pi's Power over Ethernet HAT is beginning to face production challenges caused by the supply chain crisis so now the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the PoE+ HAT that is not only easier to produce but also can provide more power in conjunction with supported switches...

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