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A new open source operating system for embedded systems

opensource.com - Sat, 07/10/2021 - 15:00

There's a growing demand for embedded operating systems, and it's best when the one you build upon is open source. The RT-Thread project's R&D team has spent three years of research and intensive development to arrive at the project's latest offering: RT-Thread Smart.


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New Arm Hardware Support In Linux 5.14 From Raspberry Pi 400 To Qualcomm Auto Bits

Phoronix - Sat, 07/10/2021 - 12:00
Arriving late for the Linux 5.14 merge window that is closing this weekend are all of the Arm SoC and platform changes for this next kernel version...

RISC-V Supports Some Exciting Features With Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Sat, 07/10/2021 - 02:00
The RISC-V architecture code supports more functionality with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel...

Zink Now Supports OpenGL ES 3.2 Over Vulkan

Phoronix - Sat, 07/10/2021 - 00:00
The latest achievement for Mesa's generic OpenGL implementation atop Vulkan is being able to handle OpenGL ES 3.2...

AMD VanGogh APUs Get New Audio Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 22:30
Since last year AMD has been working on VanGogh APU support for Linux initially with their graphics driver support and that has spread to other areas. It also turns out now that with VanGogh APUs will be a new Linux audio driver...

Intel's Linux Compute Stack Now Boasts Production-Ready OpenCL 3.0, Integrates IGSC FU

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 21:21
Shortly after OpenCL 3.0 was finalized last year it was enabled for Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack (and even earlier with their Tiger Lake enablement). But since last year that OpenCL 3.0 support was marked as "beta" while last week was quietly promoted to being "production" grade...

XWayland 21.1.2 Released With NVIDIA Hardware Acceleration Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 19:30
XWayland 21.1.2 is out today and while it may seem like "just a point release", it's quite an exciting one at that since it does bring NVIDIA hardware acceleration for XWayland when paired with their new NVIDIA 470 series driver...

AMDVLK 2021.Q3.1 Vulkan Driver Released

Phoronix - Fri, 07/09/2021 - 19:15
AMD has published its first code drop of the quarter for their open-source "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver that is derived from their official driver sources but making use of the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end rather than their proprietary shader compiler...

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