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Linux 5.13 To Allow Zstd Compressed Modules, Zstd Update Pending With Faster Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 05/03/2021 - 23:35
Adding to the variety of places where the Linux kernel supports making use of Zstd compression, kernel modules moving forward can now enjoy size reductions with Zstd...

Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable

Phoronix - Mon, 05/03/2021 - 21:18
Released on Friday was a new version of Wayland-Protocols, the collection of protocol specifications for Wayland...

Microsoft Prepping Linux For Running As 64-bit ARM Hyper-V Guest

Phoronix - Mon, 05/03/2021 - 20:34
While Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor and their Azure cloud has largely been x86_64 focused, with the Linux 5.13 kernel they are moving further for supporting Linux as a ARM64 Hyper-V guest...

AMD Zen 3 Scheduler Model Finally Added To LLVM/Clang

Phoronix - Mon, 05/03/2021 - 19:09
While last minute AMD Zen 3 "znver3" improvements managed to make it for GCC 11 that was recently released, the recent debut of LLVM 12.0 wasn't so lucky on the Zen 3 support front. There was the very basic enablement that landed in LLVM 12 but now the more complete support isn't expected until LLVM 13 this autumn...

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