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Linux Could Soon Have A New Knob For Toggling Performance/Power-Profile For Laptops

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 05:07
With upstream work Red Hat is engaged in for supporting HP and Lenovo laptops on Linux, a new standardized sysfs interface is being discussed for exposing the performance-profile option on newer laptops so users can more easily select their desired laptop power/performance characteristics...

Vulkan 1.2.156 Released With Device Memory Report Extension

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 00:14
Vulkan 1.2.156 was released this morning and while it's a small revision to the API documentation it does come with a new extension...

NVIDIA Online GTC 2020 Kicks Off Today But No Open-Source Linux Announcement Expected

Phoronix - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 22:07
NVIDIA's online GTC 2020 event kicks off today with a ton of announcements coming across the wire but not one many Linux users have been clamoring to hear more about...

NVIDIA Unveils $59 USD Raspberry Pi Competitor With Jetson Nano 2GB

Phoronix - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 21:00
Last year NVIDIA announced the Jetson Nano at $99 USD as their lowest-priced ARM SBC board to date focused on inference, robotics, and other GPU-accelerated tasks in a small, low-power form factor. The Jetson Nano at $99 USD is already significantly cheaper than the other numerous Jetson boards over the past several years while now today they are introducing a $59 board.

Radeon Software for Linux 20.40 Released With RX 5300 Series Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 20:13
AMD released an updated Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver at the end of September that went seemingly unnoticed. Only today when seeing "20.40" firmware binaries hitting the linux-firmware.git tree was I even aware of this updated packaged AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver focused on enterprise distributions...

Opportunistic Memory Reclaim Support Proposal Updated For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 10/05/2020 - 18:45
Canonical kernel engineer Andrea Righi has sent out an updated patch series implementing opportunistic memory reclaim support as a way of forcing the kernel to attempt to reclaim system memory...

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