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Intel Alder Lake P Media Driver Support Published

Phoronix - Sun, 03/14/2021 - 20:26
This week marked Intel sending out initial Linux driver enablement patches for Alder Lake P mobile support to complement the existing Alder Lake S desktop support that has been coming together in recent months. In addition to the Linux kernel code for ADL-P, the Intel open-source Media Driver code was also updated for video acceleration on this Intel hybrid chip...

Gallium Nine Lands Big Optimization Around Dynamic System Memory Buffers

Phoronix - Sun, 03/14/2021 - 19:04
In addition to recent commits improving Mesa's Gallium3D Direct3D 9 "Nine" state tracker and addressing memory issues with 32-bit games, this D3D9 state tracker is now enjoying another performance optimization helping some games...

GRVK 0.3 Released For Continuing To Implement AMD's Deprecated Mantle API Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Sun, 03/14/2021 - 18:17
GRVK is the open-source project implementing AMD's Mantle API on Vulkan. Mantle was the precursor to the Vulkan industry standard and while it's no longer in use by AMD, there still are some games out there that allow making use of it...

12 Raspberry Pi projects to try this year

opensource.com - Sun, 03/14/2021 - 15:00

Remember when the Raspberry Pi was just a really tiny hobbyist Linux computer? Well, to the surprise of no one, the Pi's power and scope has escalated quickly. Have you got a new Raspberry Pi or an old one lying around needing something to do? If so, we have plenty of new project ideas, ranging from home automation to cross-platform coding, and even some new hardware to check out.


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Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Aim To Provide Better Security

Phoronix - Sun, 03/14/2021 - 13:00
Now that Clang LTO support was merged into Linux 5.12 for x86_64 and ARM64, Google engineers have sent out their patches enabling Clang Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) support for the Linux kernel...

Google Proposes Multi-Generational LRU For Linux To Yield Much Better Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 03/14/2021 - 04:42
Google engineer Yu Zhao sent out patches proposing a "multigenerational LRU" implementation for the Linux kernel's least recently used (LRU) handling for memory page replacement...

FreeBSD 13.0-RC2 Released With ZFS Fixes, WireGuard Interface Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/13/2021 - 22:23
If all goes well FreeBSD 13.0 will be officially released before the end of the month while out this weekend is the second release candidate for testing...

Software-Defined Radio Benchmarks, Other Updates This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 03/13/2021 - 19:03
Per reader requests, several software-defined radio (SDR) benchmarks have been added alongside the 640+ other distinct workloads available for benchmarking via the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org...

KDE Plasma 5.22 Will Better Warn You If Your Disk Might Be Failing

Phoronix - Sat, 03/13/2021 - 18:40
One year into the pandemic the KDE developers remain as busy as ever advancing their free software desktop solution...

GRUB 2.06 Release Candidate Available For Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 03/13/2021 - 16:15
GRUB 2.06 was originally anticipated for release in 2020 but then the BootHole security vulnerability foiled those plans. This long awaited bootloader update though is near with GRUB 2.06-RC1 being issued on Friday and plans to formally release it in about one month's time...

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