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Intel Posts Latest AVX10.1-256 & AVX10.1-512 Compiler Patches For GCC

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 19:58
Since announcing AVX10 earlier this year, Intel compiler engineers have been quite busy preparing the open-source compiler toolchains like GCC and LLVM/Clang for this next iteration of Advanced Vector Extensions. On Thursday night the latest AVX10.1 work was posted for the GNU Compiler Collection ahead of its upcoming feature freeze...

Linux 6.7 Overhauls x86 CPU Microcode Loading

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 19:42
Recently there has been a fair amount of work done to clean-up the Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode loading on Linux that has now been merged for Linux 6.7...

FreeBSD Adding More AMD64 SIMD, Continues Improving Linux Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 19:19
FreeBSD developers have been busy preparing for the release of FreeBSD 14 as well as making a variety of enhancements to this leading BSD operating system...

Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 04:34
While AMD officially supports a much narrower range of more recent Radeon hardware with their official graphics drivers for Windows (and Linux - as it pertains to their Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver and AMDVLK official Vulkan driver), thanks to the open-source community around AMD's open-source driver code there are always nifty things that come about... As I wrote about earlier this year, an independent developer has been striving to bring Vulkan to the Radeon HD 6000 series. Yes, the 13 year old "Northern Islands" graphics processors...

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