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Mediatek MT76 WiFi Driver Seeing Nice Improvements For Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 12:09
For those making use of the "MT76" WiFi driver for Mediatek MT76 series wireless support, the Linux 5.10 kernel should be a nice upgrade...

Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 08:47
As we approach the end of Q3'2020 there have been 783 original news articles on Phoronix this quarter and another 40 featured reviews / multi-page articles. Here is a look back at what's been keeping readers informed during this turbulent year...

Intel Has Been Working On OpenCL C 3.0 Support For Clang

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 05:26
Intel's compiler experts in Moscow have been working on OpenCL C 3.0 support for the LLVM Clang compiler front-end...

Mali G72 Now Supported By Open-Source Panfrost Gallium3D Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 01:14
The open-source Panfrost graphics driver, which is now backed/supported by Arm after starting as a reverse-engineering effort, has picked up support for the Mali G72 GPU...

Initial Fedora 32 vs. Fedora 33 Beta Benchmarks Point To Slightly Higher Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 23:00
In addition to Fedora Workstation 33 switching to Btrfs, there are a number of key components updated in Fedora 33 as well as finally enabling link-time optimizations (LTO) for package builds that make this next Fedora Linux installment quite interesting from a performance perspective. Here are some initial benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 32 against the Fedora Workstation 33 Beta on an Intel Core i9 10900K system.

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