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Intel Preparing New Driver Option To Disable GPU Security Mitigations

Phoronix - Sun, 01/10/2021 - 03:31
Stemming from the renewed attention this week of Haswell GT1 graphics being broken for the past half-year under Linux with the latest versions of the kernel, a revised patch was sent out to restore that graphics support for low-end Haswell Celeron/Pentium processors. As part of that, a new option is being introduced to allow disabling security mitigations of the Intel graphics driver...

AMD Making Progress On HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager For Open-Source Compute

Phoronix - Sat, 01/09/2021 - 22:46
This week AMD engineers published their initial code for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD Linux kernel driver for providing a Heterogeneous Memory Management based Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) memory manager that ultimately will be used by their ROCm compute stack...

Alibaba's MNN Deep Learning Framework Continues Squeezing More Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 01/09/2021 - 22:03
Alibaba developers released an updated version of their "blazing fast" lightweight deep learning framework MNN, or the Mobile Neural Network...

POWER9 + ARM64 Performance For Dav1d 0.8 AV1 Decoding

Phoronix - Sat, 01/09/2021 - 20:51
With last week's release of dav1d 0.8 for CPU-based AV1 video decoding we provided a number of x86_64 benchmarks while questions were raised around the ARM64 and POWER9 performance. Here are such benchmarks for those wondering about the AV1 video decoding speed on those architectures...

KDE's KWin Compositor Sees Near Total Rewrite Of Compositing Code.

Phoronix - Sat, 01/09/2021 - 19:13
KDE's KWin window manager / compositor has seen a "near total rewrite" of its compositing code that should sharply improve the desktop...

Wine-Staging 6.0-RC6 Fixes An 11 Year Old Bug

Phoronix - Sat, 01/09/2021 - 16:35
Building off yesterday's Wine 6.0-RC6 release is an updated Wine-Staging build...

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