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Not All Of The IBM POWER10 Firmware Is Open-Source

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 20:00
Power E1080 server as their first in a new family of servers based on the IBM POWER10 processor. Sadly though not all of the POWER10 firmware is open-source...

OverlayFS On Linux 5.15 Improves Performance, Copies Up More Attributes

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 19:02
OverlayFS continues to be used by Linux IoT/embedded devices and other use-cases as a union mount file-system. With Linux 5.15 the OverlayFS file-system continues to improve...

Facebook Opens Up CacheLib As Their New Caching Engine

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 18:22
Facebook last week formally announced CacheLib as their new open-source caching engine designed for web scale services and to make for effective non-volatile memory caching to offset the increasing costs of DRAM...

Intel Working On DP 2.0 Panel Replay Power Savings For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 17:57
Last month Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers began posting patches working on DisplayPort 2.0 support for their driver with DG2/Alchemist now set to be Intel's first GPU supporting the newest DP standard. DP 2.0 enablement work continues with Panel Replay being the latest feature being worked on for their Linux driver...

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