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Linux 5.13 Power Management Updates Submitted

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 08:18
Working on the Linux power management code is a never-ending and increasingly important task. The ACPI and power management updates were sent in today for the Linux 5.13 merge window though this isn't as exciting as some of the recent kernels heavy on CPUFreq and P-State changes...

Initial Support For The Apple M1 Lands In Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 04:35
As expected, support for the initial Apple M1 SoC support and 2020 Apple Silicon devices (Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air) has landed into the Linux 5.13 kernel...

AMD EPYC 72F3 Linux Performance For 8-Core Zen 3 Server CPU

Phoronix - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 01:20
Over the past month we have been quite impressed by the performance of the EPYC 7003 series Milan processors when looking at the top-tier parts, but how does Zen 3 do for lower-tier server CPUs? Recently we were supplied with two EPYC 72F3 processors from AMD for these 8-core high performance SKUs. In our initial look at the EPYC 72F3 Linux performance is seeing how they compare to the similar previous-generation EPYC 7F32 processor.

Linux 5.13 Bringing Code For Intel SGX Within KVM Guests

Phoronix - Mon, 04/26/2021 - 23:42
Linux 5.11 brought mainline support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) after a lengthy mainlining process. Building off that SGX enclaves support in the mainline kernel more recently has been support for SGX with KVM virtualization and now for mainline Linux 5.13 that guest-side support is landing for KVM guests...

OpenCL 3.0.7 Released With New Extensions

Phoronix - Mon, 04/26/2021 - 22:09
The Khronos Group used the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL 2021) to release OpenCL 3.0.7 as the latest OpenCL 3 revision that brings with it some new extensions...

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