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OpenRazer 3.2 Released For Supporting More Razer Peripherals On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 12/13/2021 - 01:49
OpenRazer as the open-source, community-maintained collection of Razer peripheral support for Linux is out with a new release...

As We Prepare For 2022, Linux Still Doesn't Have Standardized Per-Client GPU Stats Reporting

Phoronix - Sun, 12/12/2021 - 21:00
One of the Intel patch series we have been waiting to see mainlined since all the way back in 2018 is around per-client GPU metrics reporting for being able to show various GPU engine activity on a per-process basis. Every once in a while the patches have been revived but have yet to reach mainline. They recently were revved once again, leaving us hope that in 2022 we might finally see this standardized per-client/process GPU statistics reporting land in the mainline kernel...

Speculative NUMA Fault Support Proposed For Improving Tiered Memory Linux Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 12/12/2021 - 20:34
This year there has been a lot of Linux kernel work around improving the handling of tiered memory servers, namely those with traditional system RAM augmented by Intel Optane DC persistent memory. There has been work to demote pages during reclamation to the slower persistent memory, improving NUMA balancing around such systems to optimize memory placement, transparent page placement and related work around tiered memory Linux servers...

Linux Prepares For More Code Sharing Between AMD SEV + Intel TDX

Phoronix - Sun, 12/12/2021 - 18:54
Coming with future Intel CPUs is Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) to further enhance the security of virtual machines (VMs) and it's sounded a lot like AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in many regards and in fact now for the Linux kernel Intel is looking at leveraging some of that SEV code to allow for more code sharing between these CPU features to improve virtualization security...

Intel Contributes A Number Of Vulkan Filters/Improvements To FFmpeg

Phoronix - Sun, 12/12/2021 - 18:34
Aside from the separate work around experimental Vulkan Video decode support, thanks to Intel recently there have been a number of Vulkan improvements to the FFmpeg code around new accelerated filters...

More Apple M1 Bring-Up For Linux Continues: SPI, SimpleDRM, PMU

Phoronix - Sun, 12/12/2021 - 18:18
One year after Apple introduced the M1 SoC and the effort began to bring-up this Apple Silicon under Linux, the effort remains ongoing and more code is inching closer to the mainline kernel...

Open source 3D pixel art with Goxel

opensource.com - Sun, 12/12/2021 - 16:00

I make it no secret that I love Lego, but I've moved far away from my Lego collection, and shipping a closet full of classic Lego sets all the way around the world is currently a problematic proposal. I've done a lot of virtualization to solve this problem, from building models in Lego CAD to styling models with a Lego texture in Blender. Recently I discovered Goxel.


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