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The Qt Company Is Tomorrow Moving Qt 5.15 To Its Commercial-Only LTS Phase

Phoronix - Tue, 01/05/2021 - 00:26
As part of their fundamental shift to restrict Qt LTS point releases to commercial customers, The Qt Company is closing the Qt 5.15 branch to the public tomorrow with future Qt 5.15 LTS point releases to be restricted to paying licensees...

AMD Performance On Linux 5.11 Remains Mixed Due To Schedutil With Frequency Invariance

Phoronix - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 23:43
Back on Christmas I wrote about Linux 5.11 regressing for AMD performance on Zen 2 and newer systems where the just-added CPU frequency invariance support was often hurting various workloads when using the default "Schedutil" scheduler utilization frequency scaling governor. Since then and through the holidays I have been carrying out many more benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.11 performance with a particular focus on the AMD desktop/server platforms.

Intel Keem Bay Accelerated Hashing Driver Positioned For Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 22:15
Keem Bay, Intel's third-generation Movidius VPU (Vision Processing Unit), continues seeing more upstream open-source hardware support within the Linux kernel. Coming to the Linux 5.12 kernel in a couple months will be more support within the crypto subsystem...

RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Optimizations For AMD Smart Access Memory

Phoronix - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 21:41
Following RadeonSI seeing optimizations around AMD Smart Access Memory (Resizable BAR) support last month, the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" within Mesa 21.0 is also seeing similar treatment...

Linux NVMe Simple-Copy Support Inches Closer To The Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 19:25
Another one of the features you won't find in the Linux 5.11 kernel is support for the recently ratified NVMe Simple Copy but work on supporting that feature continues...

Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Finally Exploiting Intel/AMD FMA For More Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 19:02
The Ardour open-source, cross-platform digital audio workstation rung in 2021 by mainlining support for using Intel/AMD FMA functionality for greater performance...

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