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Linux Kernel Sees Initial Patches For Supporting Intel Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 10/03/2020 - 04:27
Intel engineers today sent out their initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the company's forthcoming hybrid architecture processors...

AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Support For The "Green Sardine"

Phoronix - Sat, 10/03/2020 - 00:15
AMD has been sending out a lot of new Linux graphics driver enablement code recently for the Linux with the newest being the "Green Sardine" platform...

Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance On The Linux 5.8 Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 23:00
Given that Ubuntu 20.10 will be shipping with Linux 5.8 out-of-the-box along with other autumn 2020 Linux distributions where Linux 5.9 is landing too late, here is a fresh comparison of several different AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" and Intel Xeon "Cascade Lake" processors on this current stable kernel release for seeing how the performance is standing up as we approach this next round of Linux distribution releases.

Intel Prepares Linux Kernel Support For Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX)

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 21:12
Following the announcement this summer of Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) as an exciting feature coming to Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs next year, Intel's open-source engineers quickly began with patches to LLVM and GNU toolchain support for AMX. Now Intel engineers have sent out their patches in preparing the Linux kernel for AMX...

Mesa Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Rust Graphics Driver Code

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 20:24
A proposal is being discussed over the possibility of beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within Mesa 3D for this open-source OpenGL/Vulkan driver stack along with the likes of Gallium3D video acceleration...

RADV's ACO Back-End Can Be A Massive Win For Vulkan Compute - Not Just Gaming

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 16:37
While the Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver's "ACO" back-end was developed and funded by Valve with gaming in mind to optimize game load times and help with delivering optimal performance, it turns out ACO works damn well for some Vulkan compute workloads too...

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