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Open-Source Coreboot Port Working On A Retail Intel Alder Lake MSI Motherboard

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 20:27
When it comes to running open-source Coreboot on retail motherboards it's sadly mostly a matter of generations-old platforms like various AMD Opteron server motherboards, old ThinkPads, many generation old motherboards for out-of-date Intel CPUs, and other dated hardware. To much excitement, 3mdeb has been porting Coreboot and the Dasharo open-source firmware to the MSI PRO Z690-A motherboards... Yes, finally Coreboot on a retail and broadly available motherboard that's latest-generation!..

Ubuntu's Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 20:11
Ahead of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS shipping next week, a new version of their Zsys daemon/client for ZFS-based Linux installations has been issued...

AMD AOCC Performance On EPYC 7773X Milan-X Against GCC, Clang Compilers

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 19:14
Last month with the AMD EPYC 7773X Linux benchmarks and Milan-X in the Azure cloud I showed the impressive capabilities of AMD's new Milan-X processors with 768MB of L3 cache per socket (1.5GB cache per 2P server!) for a range of workloads. All of that initial benchmarking as usual was done using the default GCC system compiler across all tested AMD/Intel processors. Of course, there also exists AMD's Optimizing C/C++ Compiler (AOCC) as a downstream of LLVM/Clang with various Zen optimization patches applied. Curious about the AOCC impact for Milan-X, here are some benchmarks looking at the EPYC 7773X 2P performance across AOCC, GCC, and LLVM Clang.

GCC 12 Compiler Gains Official Support For IBM z16

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 17:58
Over a year ago IBM sent out GCC compiler support for "arch14" that at the time we imagined was for IBM z16. Indeed with IBM having announced their z16 last week, the GCC compiler is now being updated to officially recognize z16 and offer that as an option over the "arch14" naming...

Qt 6.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support, Qt Language Server Module

Phoronix - Tue, 04/12/2022 - 17:16
The Qt Company has officially released Qt 6.3 as the newest half-year update to their open-source, cross-platform toolkit...

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