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Steam Beta Improves Its Vulkan Pre-Caching System, PipeWire Capture Now Opt-In

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 08:51
With the initial Steam Deck release quickly approaching, Valve continues to be quite busy on a variety of improvements to enhance their Steam Linux builds...

RadeonSI Driver Merges NGG Improvements, Other Optimizations For Mesa 21.3

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 06:35
AMD open-source driver developers today merged another big set of patches providing various micro-optimizations and other enhancements to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Linux 5.16 To Expose AMD PSF Disable Bit To KVM Guests

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 02:48
While the Linux kernel still hasn't added any formal control yet for AMD Predictive Store Forwarding to disable it short of also toggling Spectre V4 / SSBD, with the Linux 5.16 kernel the AMD PSF bit will now be exposed to KVM guest virtual machines so that they -- either with a patched/future kernel or for other operating systems -- may choose to toggle explicitly disable this AMD CPU feature...

Fedora 35 Beta Released With Many New Features, Countless Package Updates

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 01:48
After seeing some initial release challenges, Fedora 35 Beta was released today across the Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, and Fedora IoT flavors as well as their other versions...

Vulkan 1.2.194 Brings New Extension For Google's Fuchsia OS

Phoronix - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 21:29
Vulkan 1.2.194 is out as the latest spec revision to this high performance graphics and compute API...

Ampere Altra Max M128-30 Linux Performance Preview

Phoronix - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 21:25
The past month we have started our testing of Ampere's Altra Max M128-30, the company's new 128 core server processor, and in this article today are our initial benchmarks of this promising chip for high core count servers in both 1P and 2P configurations tested.

Picolibc Continues Maturing As Very Lightweight C Library For The Embedded World

Phoronix - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 21:00
While Keith Packard is known for his work on X11/X.Org, the past few years he has also been developing Picolibc as a C library intended for embedded systems. He also recently jumped from SiFive to Amazon and appears at the ecommerce giant to be working on Picolibc in an official capacity, presumably for use on Amazon's growing hardware devices...

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