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Sony Begins Landing PlayStation 5 Support In The Upstream LLVM/Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 02:55
Similar to Sony contributing PlayStation 4 compiler support in LLVM with Clang being their preferred code compiler, Sony has now begun upstreaming PlayStation 5 (PS5) support in the open-source LLVM/Clang compiler stack...

Git 2.36 Released With --remerge-diff Option, More Control Over Fsync

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 02:26
Git 2.36 is out as the newest feature release to this widely-used, open-source distributed revision control system...

SDL2 Reverts Its Wayland Preference - Goes Back To X11 Default

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 00:26
Back in January was the change pushed into SDL2 Git where the library prefers Wayland by default where available rather than defaulting to using X11 support. However, pushed today into SDL2 is a revert on that earlier change due to Wayland issues that the developers are more comfortable sticking to X11/XWayland by default until various Wayland problems are addressed...

Intel Alder Lake Performance Fix To Be Backported To Linux 5.15 LTS

Phoronix - Mon, 04/18/2022 - 19:29
A Canonical kernel engineer is now proposing an Intel P-State performance fix for latest-generation Intel Alder Lake processors be back-ported to the Linux 5.15 LTS series. In turn this should then be picked up by Ubuntu 22.04's kernel build moving forward and others on this latest long-term support series for Linux...

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