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AMD Publishes Initial Firmware For Yellow Carp APUs

Phoronix - Wed, 09/15/2021 - 21:25
A small but important step forward is seeing AMD recently publishing their binary firmware files in advance of new GPU/APU launches for rounding out their Linux driver support stack...

Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Still Working On Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, More Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 09/15/2021 - 20:07
Iago Toral of Igalia kicked off the first day of the virtual XDC2021 developer conference today by sharing a status update on V3DV as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver most notably used for Raspberry Pi 4 and newer...

Orange Publishes An In-Kernel eBPF-Powered Cache - Can Speed Up Memcached By ~18x

Phoronix - Wed, 09/15/2021 - 18:28
French telecommunications giant Orange has published "BMC" as the (e)BPF Memory Cache providing a cache focused on memcached usage within the Linux kernel...

HP OMEN Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Wed, 09/15/2021 - 18:08
HP's higher-end "OMEN" laptop series is set to see better support with the next kernel cycle...

New Intel Tremont Optimizations Heading To The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 09/15/2021 - 17:45
The GNU Compiler Collection has already supported Intel's Tremont cores as used by the low-power Jasper Lake platform. Now though coming to GCC are some optimizations to further enhance the performance when targeting the Tremont micro-architecture...

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