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Linux 5.12 Will Avoid Prematurely Shutting Down Intel Mobile Systems When Running Hot

Phoronix - Sat, 02/20/2021 - 03:43
Linux 5.12 with queued thermal changes will avoid prematurely shutting down mobile Intel workstations when a "critical" thermal threshold is reached that isn't too critical...

Radeon "GFX90A" Added To LLVM As Next-Gen CDNA With Full-Rate FP64

Phoronix - Sat, 02/20/2021 - 01:23
It looks like the open-source driver support to the next-generation CDNA GPU / MI100 "Arcturus" successor is on the way. Hitting mainline AMDGPU LLVM is a new "GFX90A" target adding new interesting features for compute...

LLVM Clang 12 Performance Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Phoronix - Sat, 02/20/2021 - 00:00
With LLVM 12 due for release next month and GCC 11 not being far behind, it's the season for fresh compiler benchmarks. In today's article is a look at the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Zen 3) compiler performance between LLVM Clang 11.1 against the current LLVM Clang 12.0 Git development code in its feature-frozen state.

Experimental Wayland Support For Wine Now Sees More Functionality Working

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 23:36
Back in December there was an experimental driver for native Wayland support within Wine published by Collabora developer Alexandros Frantzis. A new version of the Wayland patches for Wine have now been published...

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